###Corrections: 4% != .004% : When I was writing the article, my brain translated 99996 into 96000. Big difference. It turns out that I’m unable to dequeue somewhere between .004% and .20% of messages in about half of test runs. ###Note: I’ve been chatting with some very helpful RabbitMQ-knowledgeable people, and they have some suggestions for the issues I’m seeing that I’m going to check out. I will update this article with my findings.

Hey everybody, check out this intro to the Go programming language I put together for a talk at Backstop the other week! Golang Slides I tried to keep the slides content-light, since I find that having too many things on the screen distracts from what I’m saying. I’ll recapitulate my notes below. Title slide. Blah blah blah. Around since 2009 Go started as a research project at Google in 2007.