Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together — We’ve touched a few times on the sibling-style relationship between Rust and Go (not least in last year’s popular Rust vs Go opinion piece) and in this piece a member of the Go team balances the two and how they “supplement and support each other”.

Steven Francia

REST Servers in Go: Middleware — The latest in an ongoing series of articles about writing REST servers in Go. In Life of an HTTP request, Eli tackled where middleware fits into the big picture, but here he goes deeper and implements some.

Eli Bendersky

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PDF: Automatically Detecting and Fixing Concurrency Bugs in Go Software Systems — An academic paper that proposes an approach for detecting and then fixing concurrency bugs in Go programs. It’s not just theoretical, though, as they actually built it and ran it over things like Kubernetes and Docker and found a variety of bugs! Quite the paper, but heavy going if academic writing isn’t your bag. This GitHub repo has the actual code and tools mentioned.

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Getting Started with eBPF and Go — eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a technology originally intended for capturing, monitoring and filtering network activity but is now a broader sandboxed system for writing code that can run within the Linux kernel.

Michael Kashin

Writing Slower Go Programs — So, writing slower programs is a good thing? Not exactly, but focusing solely on performance is a mistake, especially for a new or intermediate gopher.

John Arundel

Mage is My Favorite Make — Mage is a Go-powered make replacement, so it’s cross-platform and has a better dependency story than the time-worn tool.

Carolyn Van Slyck

Teaching Go Programs to Love JSON and YAML — Pretty small lift to add a whole new format.

Mathias Lafeldt

Go App Monitoring with Prometheus — The example here is a simple web application with Prometheus (a popular open source monitoring tool) middleware.

Tanner Gabriel

GChalk: Terminal String Styling for Go 'Done Right' — A bold claim but this library, heavily influenced by Node’s Chalk, boasts ‘painless’ Windows 10 support, auto detects color support, and has a nice expressive API.

Jason Walton

SQLBoiler 4.5: Generate a Go ORM Tailored to Your Database Schema — The idea is that you create your schema at the database level first and then this interrogates the schema and generates ORM code for Go based upon the actual design.

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The Definitive Guide to Feature Management

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goverter: Generate Type-Safe Go Converters by Simply Defining an Interface

Jannis Mattheis

Glow: Render Markdown on the Terminal — Glow does more than just render, it can discover and save Markdown files, too.

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Go Client for the Unsplash API — Unsplash is a free-to-use stock photography site of sorts.

Hardik Bagdi

Dynamo: An Expressive DynamoDB Library

Greg Roseberry

Senior Software Engineer (Go) - 100% Remote, UK/EU Only — Solving complex technical challenges using the latest, cloud-native technologies to help Banks and FinTechs move money faster.

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Sr. Software Engineer at CrowdStrike (Remote) — CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, which helps protect our customers from cybersecurity attacks.

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