Have you ever wondered if the ordering of the fields within a Go struct has any impact on memory consumption or application performances? Long story short: it might be the case, so let’s see why!

Context

As an engineering organisation grows in terms of head-count to tackle an increase in the amount of stuff to work on, it needs to find and apply a methodology to make sure the collective effort of the organisation is canalised toward a (set of) clear objective(s), so that all the forces within the organisation go the same direction.

Heads-up
This post originally appeared in my employer’s official blog

After years of inactivity, I decided to give a new life to my blog, hosting it on GitHub via Jekyll.
The old one hosted on silvrback is now closed, and its content lost.
Long live the new blog!