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Keeping myself alive with Go - GopherCon SG 2023

Singapore Gophers — Feb 25, 2024 — conference

Why watch

Matt Boyle shares how he uses Go to build a personal monitoring system for managing Type 1 diabetes, treating his health like a production system with observability tools. The talk covers using Prometheus for metrics collection, Grafana for visualization, and custom alerting to handle blood sugar monitoring as a P1 incident. Developers interested in applying DevOps monitoring principles to personal projects will find this particularly useful.