Chroma: A Pure Go General Purpose Syntax Highlighter — Chroma brings most of the features of Pygments, pretty much the Python-based standard in the syntax highlighting field, to Go and can even use the lexers and styles already created for Pygments.

Alec Thomas

Why American Express Has Chosen Go — A look at why American Express decided to use Go for some of its most critical applications. They’ve also written up a case study for the new go.dev site.

Benjamin Cane

Start 2020 Strong. Ultimate Go Training: Charlotte, NC - January 27-29, 2020 — Take advantage of the early bird pricing and attend Bill Kennedy's Ultimate Go Training in Charlotte, North Carolina in January 2020. If you have a team of 5 or more engineers request a group discount here.

Ardan Labs sponsor

Oracle Pits GraalVM Against Google Go? — This seems like a bit of an unusual gauntlet to throw down, but apparently Oracle are positioning GraalVM (a multi-language supporting, polyglot VM they’ve been building) as being better than Go because you get interoperability with the Java ecosystem.. OK, then.. 😬

Paul Krill

macOS Go Binaries and Installer Identifiers Are Changing — The macOS Go package identifier namespace is changing from com.googlecode.* to org.golang.*. This is a very minor thing unless your infrastructure is relying upon the macOS Go installer having a specific identifier.

Andrew Bonventre

Enjoy Building Scalable Infrastructure in Go? Stream Is Hiring — Like coding in Go? We do too. Stream is hiring in Amsterdam. Apply now.

Stream

Find a Job Through Vettery — Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery is completely free for job seekers.

Vettery

Simple Dependency Injection in Go with Fx — You don’t see much about dependency injection in Go, but its concepts can apply nicely. Fx is a handy tool to make DI easy.

Yage Hu

What Tracking Down Missing TCP Keepalives Taught Me About Docker, Go, and GitLab — An in-depth recap of debugging a bug in the Docker client library.

Stan Hu (GitLab)

Creating a Bloom Filter with Go — If you’ve never encountered a Bloom filter before, I recommend having a play as they’re not complicated but are rather interesting in how they let you store data in a performance and memory efficient way, at the price of false positives. Here’s another example of how they work.

Dylan Meeus

The Art of PostgreSQL: A Book to Learn How to Best Use SQL from Your Go Application — The book that teaches SQL to developers: learn to replace thousands of lines of Go code with simple SQL queries.

The Art of PostgreSQL sponsor

A Closer Look at The sync Package — If you’re only familiar with sync.Mutex and sync.WaitGroup, then you’ll definitely learn something here. I feel like sync.Cond is something I should use more.

Teiva Harsanyi

GraphQL Observability with Go Using Open-Source Tools — IBM’s Watson Media division reveals their GraphQL observability stack that’s built around Go, Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafana.

Szabolcs Gelencsér

go vet's -c Option — go vet is a built-in command that prints out ‘suspicious constructs’ in Go code.. and it supports a ‘context’ option for showing a number of lines around such constructs.

Damian Gryski on Twitter

Secure: HTTP Middleware for Some 'Quick Security Wins' — Covers areas like content security policy, SSL redirects, allowing certain hosts, setting a referrer policy, etc.

Cory Jacobsen

TinyGo 0.10 Released: The Go Compiler for 'Small Places' — LLVM 9, improved CGo support, blocking select support, plus support for some new boards like the Adafruit Feather M4 and the X9 Pro and PineTime smartwatches.

TinyGo

Hugo 0.60: The Fast Go Framework for Statically Building Sites — Hugo has switched to a new Markdown library Goldmark.

Hugo Team

Speed Up Frontend Development with FaunaDB's Auth and Native GraphQL

FaunaDB sponsor

go-sqlbuilder: A Flexible SQL String Builder Library — Focused mostly on MySQL and Postgres. Includes basic ORM type support via structs.

Huan Du

Gin 1.5: The Popular Go HTTP Web Framework

Gin-Gonic

gtrace: An Experimental System Call Tracer for Linux x86-64

Agis Anastasopoulos

PNGR: Dockerized (Postgres + Nginx + Go + React) — Starter kit for a web app that includes user and session management, JWT authentication, and a basic CRUD example.

Karl Keefer