An Interview with Go's Rob Pike — Go’s co-creator answers some big picture questions about Go’s status, history, and future. “Go has indeed become the language of cloud infrastructure,” says Rob.

Evrone

📊 What's Coming in Go 1.15 — This presentation covers all the major sections: tooling, performance, API changes, and the Big Ones, like the aforementioned smaller binaries. Fingers crossed for a final release in August.

Daniel Martí slidedeck

Troubleshoot Golang App Issues with End-To-End Distributed Tracing — Trace requests across service boundaries to optimize bottlenecks by drilling into individual traces end-to-end with flame graphs. Correlate Golang traces with related logs and metrics for fast troubleshooting. Enhance performance with a free Datadog APM trial.

Datadog APM sponsor

Debugging Go Programs using Delve — The recent Go community survey showed that most Go developers use text-based logging (e.g. with fmt.Print()) to debug, but if you want to step things up a notch, this is a gentle intro to Delve.

Naveen Ramanathan

My Journey Optimizing The Go Compiler — Assel explains how a simple task evolved into a legitimate compiler optimization (aimed at 1.15) and proves we should all have a curious mind.

Assel Meher

The 'Ultimate' Go Study Guide — A large repository of code examples with comments and notes from Hoanh’s attempt at learning the language. If you pick up concepts well from straightforward examples, this is worth a look.

Hoanh An

Software Engineer at HiPeople (Remote/Berlin) — Fast-moving startup (backed by top tier VCs) shaping the future of modern recruiting is looking for engineers who love working with Go.

HiPeople

Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started.

Vettery

Making a Multiplayer Game with Go and gRPC — Started as a (somewhat ambitious) project to learn Go, Sam walks us through the algorithms, design decisions, mistakes, and where Go helped and hurt the game.

Samuel Mortenson

Documenting a Go GitHub Repo — Or, “How to Keep the README in Your GitHub Repo in Sync with Your Go Doc.”

Eyal Posener

The 5 Crucial PDF & Office Features For Corporate Apps in Pure Go — UniDoc develops pure Go libraries for managing PDF and Office files since 2016. Here are the features developers use the most.

UniDoc sponsor

The Creation of a Realtime Patient Monitoring System with Go and Vue in 3 Days — This is the Go content I am here for. Connecting with monitoring devices and leveraging Go’s strengths to create a helpful, distributed application. Great work.

Kasun Vithanage

Add It Up: Azure’s Go Problem — Here’s one takeaway from the Go Developer Survey. Of the major clouds, Azure is the one Go developers seem least enamored by.

Lawrence E Hecht

Why You Should Generally Be using the Latest Version of Go — No surprising arguments here.

Chris Siebenmann

XLSX: A Library for Reading and Writing XLSX (Excel) Files — Got spreadsheets? Want to make spreadsheets? There’s a lot you can do with them here.

Geoffrey J. Teale

SQLBoiler: Generate a Go ORM Tailored to Your Database Schema — A long standing library that has now switched to modules.

Volatile Technologies Inc.

Decimal: Arbitrary-Precision Fixed-Point Decimal Numbers for Go — The library laments that it can only support decimal numbers with up to 2^38 digits after the decimal point so take care 😏

Spring Engineering

Beta Launch: Code Performance Profiling - Find & Fix Bottlenecks

Blackfire sponsor

Redigo: A Go Client for Redis — In related news, Redis 6.0 has just been released.

Gary Burd

ntp: Facebook's NTP Libraries — NTP stands for “Network Time Protocol”, if you were wondering. Basically, clock synchronization.

Facebook Incubator

grobotstxt: A Native Go Port of Google's Robots.txt Parser and Matcher Library — Now you can crawl your own site, just like Google does.

Jim Smart

A Compiler for a Small Custom Language Into x86-64 Assembly — One of those ‘labor of love’ type projects that you might enjoy poking around in. You won’t use this project directly, but you might be intrigued how to create a similar compiler for your own thing.

Maurice Tollmien

MIDAS: Microcluster-Based Detector of Anomalies in Edge Streams — A Go reimplementation of this C++ version.

Steve Tan

Liftbridge 1.0: Lightweight, Fault-Tolerant Message Streams — A server that implements a durable, replicated message log for the NATS messaging system.

Liftbridge