Debugging Go applications with Delve

Workshop Objective

The workshop aims to illustrate the basics of Delve, the Go debugger.

Who It Is For

Developers with a previous experience with Go that would like to improve their Go debugging skills.

Requirements

Basic experience with Go

Environment Setup

For the majority of the exercises what you need is to:

• Install Go
• Install Delve

To follow the workshop contents and try all the examples, you can run the Vagrantfile included to provision a Linux VM. This way, you will get rid of all the possible annoyances that may come up configuring all the tools. To do that you will need to:

• Install VirtualBox
• Install Vagrant
• Run vagrant up from the repo root to provision the VM
• Get a shell on the VM by running vagrant ssh

Outline

The workshop is broken down into sections. We will go through these individually during the class:

• First Contact With Delve
• Taming Concurrency
• Debugging Sessions
• Core Dumps and Snapshots
• Containerized Environments
• Debuggers Under The Hood
• References and Further Readings

Please ask questions and interact freely with the speaker during the workshop!

Contacts

email: fabio [at] develer [dot] com

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