speed 1.0 #golang #speed

Hi everyone

I am happy to announce that I feel confident enough to tag 1.0 to speed.

A lot of changes have been made to the library since the alpha release during the program. Probably should have had a lot of intermediate releases, but every week there was something else to get done next week before a release.

Anyways, a lot has changed in the library since the initial release. The most notable change being custom metric types (Counters, Gauges, Timers...) built on top of PCP Singleton and Instance Metrics. Another important change was to rewrite the underlying bytebuffer implementation, to make operations more concurrent. As far as the API is concerned, the option to add specify description strings in metric constructor was provided by providing optional parameters. Some 'Must' style methods were added to the API to panic on error and make the API less verbose. A `mmvdump` subpackage was implemented as a go port of the C implementation to better test the client. A bunch of fixes that made the metric types more safe in concurrent operation were also sneaked in. Finally, the package was integrated into the go-kit microservices library (https://godoc.org/github.com/go-kit/kit/metrics/pcp) and I ported the examples separately (https://github.com/suyash/kit-pcp-examples) as a mechanism to showcase real world usage for the project.

The README has more stuff now, it was fun to work on this for GSoC, will continue to find ways to improve it more. Any feedback is always welcome.