If you haven’t used it yet, this is a good look at a handy Go tool for monitoring your program’s usage of goroutines, memory, threads, and more.

A look at several things you can do to make your code more robust, debuggable, and ready for production.

In 35 minutes, see how and why Go’s garbage collector works, what the tricolor algorithm is, and how it compares with GC in other languages.

While rewriting our database backup utility, mongodump, we utilized a “divide-and-multiplex” method to marry a high-throughput concurrent workload with a serial output. Check it out.

To improve the experience for new Go users, a formal Developer eXperience Working Group (DXWG) has been set up.

For example, when 1.9 is out, 1.8 and 1.9 will get active updates. When 1.10 is out, 1.10 and 1.9 will, and so on.