I haven't been all too active here either. Moved to my second job(and city) and been fairly busy getting the cloud side of things set up on OpenShift. I wrote some things in golang but haven't been programming as much as I would like. But running kubernetes has given me more insight to the linux kernel and network stack so yay.
@allquixotic that we could do, but with the fixed sizing requirements, just pre allocating a block should save me the trouble of writing one more process