Go unique package

Phuong Le over at Victoria Metrics has a blog post about the unique package in the Go standard library. I wasn't aware of the package so I'm grateful to learn about this.

If you didn't know about VictoriaMetrics, here's what Phuong says about themselves. They're also a Go shop.

If you want to monitor your services, track metrics, and see how everything performs, you might want to check out VictoriaMetrics. It’s a fast, open-source, and cost-saving way to keep an eye on your infrastructure.

This is also the first time I heard the term string interning. I was aware of the behaviour in python. Once I discovered that python kept a global cache of certain numbers to save memory. But I didn't know what it was called.

This is what I mean.

>>> a = 10
>>> b = 10
>>> a is b
True
>>> a = 100000
>>> b = 100000
>>> a is b
False
>>> 

I also learned that Python has a list of integers ranging from -5 to 256 in a global cache.

There's a linked post that goes in more depth about string interning in time series database. I've added it to my to-read list.