In flow-based programming, programs are modelled around messages flowing between ‘black box’ processes, and channels and goroutines can be used to pull it off in Go.

The developers of a database encryption tool had to investigate, and fix, an interesting memory leak.

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Digging into configuring Go apps using a simple, INI-like configuration language called TOML, as well as some related difficulties and pitfalls.

It supports many additional features beyond what’s available through database/sql and is designed to be used directly if you need to get the most out of Postgres from Go.

Yep, we’re going back to 2013 (and 2008) but if you weren’t around then, this tale of the first Go program, written in 2008, is a fun look back.