Matt Layher
Software Engineer. Go, Linux, and open source software enthusiast. On and ever upward.
Open Source
- vsock
- Package vsock provides access to Linux VM sockets (AF_VSOCK) for communication between a hypervisor and its virtual machines. MIT Licensed.
- talks
- Talks by Matt Layher. MIT Licensed.
- wireguardctrl
- Package wireguardctrl enables control of WireGuard devices on multiple platforms. MIT Licensed.
- raw
- Package raw enables reading and writing data at the device driver level for a network interface. MIT Licensed.
- kobject
- Package kobject provides access to Linux kobject userspace events. MIT Licensed.
- hdhomerun_exporter
- Command hdhomerun_exporter implements a Prometheus exporter for SiliconDust HDHomeRun devices. MIT Licensed.
- hdhomerun
- Package hdhomerun enables interacting with SiliconDust HDHomeRun devices. MIT Licensed.
- homelab
- Configuration management for Matt Layher's machines. MIT Licensed.
- apcupsd_exporter
- Prometheus exporter that exposes metrics from apcupsd's NIS. MIT Licensed.
- mdlayher.com
- Matt Layher's personal static website. MIT Licensed.
Blog Posts
- Exploring byte parsing APIs in Go
- An exploration into building safe and ergonomic byte parsing APIs in Go.
- Network Protocol Breakdown: NDP and Go
- An introduction to the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery protocol, and how to utilize it from Go.
- A programmer’s journey with RSI
- My experiences as a professional programmer dealing with RSI and cubital tunnel syndrome, and how I manage these issues.
- Accessing SMBIOS information with Go
- Accessing hardware information using the SMBIOS standard with Go.
- unsafe.Pointer and system calls
- Using Go’s unsafe.Pointer type to cast raw memory and work with system calls.
- Open Source at DigitalOcean: Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt
- Controlling QEMU and libvirt programmatically using pure Go interfaces.
- Cthulhu: Organizing Go Code in a Scalable Repo
- Lessons learned while working with DigitalOcean’s monolithic Go code repository, cthulhu.
- Network Protocol Breakdown: Ethernet and Go
- An introduction to Ethernet frames, VLAN tags, and raw sockets, and how to leverage low-level networking primitives in Go.
- Linux VM sockets in Go
- Leveraging Linux VM sockets to enable bidirectional, many-to-one communication between a hypervisor and its VMs, using Go.
- Linux, Netlink, and Go — Part 3: packages netlink, genetlink, and wifi
- Using netlink, generic netlink, and nl80211 to manipulate WiFi network interfaces on Linux, using Go.
Talks
- Orchestructure, March 2019: Exploring IPv6 at Home: Preparing for the Future of the Internet Protocol
- An overview of IPv6, and a demonstration of how to set up IPv4/6 dual-stack networks at home.
- slides
- GopherCon 2018 - Lightning Talk: Linux, Netlink, and Go in 7 minutes or less!
- GopherCon 2018: Implementing a Network Protocol in Go
- OVS Orbit podcast: Networking with OVS at DigitalOcean
- Matt Layher and Armando Migliaccio discuss Open vSwitch networking at DigitalOcean.
- audio
- KubeCon/Cloud Native Con EU 2018: How to export Prometheus metrics from just about anything
- Gathering and exporting Prometheus metrics with Go from files, devices, and system calls.
- slides
- Open vSwitch 2017 Fall Conference: OvS manipulation with Go at DigitalOcean
- How DigitalOcean controls Open vSwitch using the Go programming language.
- slides
- GopherCon 2017 - Lightning Talk: Ethernet and Go
- A brief intro to Go
- package ovs
- Self-contained testing in Go