Down the Go nil Rabbit Hole — It may not be among the top knocks on Go, but nil handling has certainly been mentioned in Go gripe sessions. Here’s a solid example of the kind of gotcha you might find if you dig too deep into Go’s type system.

Dave Rolsky

Proposal to Add Fuzzing to Go's Standard Library Now Accepted — ‘Fuzzing’ is an approach to testing where inputs are changed/mutated to try and find issues with the code consuming said input. Now comes the implementation.

Russ Cox

Remote Instructor-Led Go, Docker, Kubernetes & Python Training — We offer live-streaming remote training sessions for individual engineers and companies that want to augment their knowledge in Go, Docker, Kubernetes and Python. We’ve trained over 10,000 engineers via our carefully crafted classes.

Ardan Labs sponsor

OmniParser 1.0: A Go-Powered ETL System — Ingest CSV, XML, JSON, and more, in a streaming fashion, and transform it into JSON based upon a schema itself written in JSON. There’s an online demo here showing off some use cases. Benthos is an alternative if you want something more extensible and cloud service oriented.

JF Technology

'How I Create Small Go Apps Quickly' — When you want to thrash out a quick idea, you’re sure to have some boilerplate code lying around to speed things up – Bill shares his here.

Bill Mill

Debugging Go Microservices in Kubernetes with VS Code — Peter uses delve and Telepresence to connect to a remote (so, could be production) Kubernetes cluster and step through a debugging process with a local VS Code IDE.

Peter O'Neill

How Does Go Know time.Now? — This is a surprisingly deep look into how Go handles time, figuring out local, etc. You’ll need, um, time to read this.

Paschalis Tsilias

Building a BitTorrent Client from the Ground Up in Go — We linked this back in 2020 but it’s been doing the rounds on social media again and I remembered how useful it was for understanding how BitTorrent works.

Jesse Li

Introducing Bramble: A Federated GraphQL Gateway Implemented In Go — GraphQL federation is a reasonably new concept that addresses aggregating services behind a GraphQL API so you can make many services look like a single service.

Movio

Don't Use Build Tags for Integration Tests — “I used to recommend using build tags to gate integration tests. But I don’t any more — I’ve found a much better way.”

Peter Bourgon

Observability Won’t Replace Monitoring (Because It Shouldn’t)

Lightstep sponsor

go-json: Fast JSON Encoder/Decoder Compatible with encoding/json — That’s one mean looking gopher in their project logo!

Masaaki Goshima

go-version: A Version Number Parsing and Verification Library — This is for when you need to do things like verify version numbers against constraints (e.g. is 1.2 >= 1.0, < 1.4). It can also parse, sort, and compare version numbers.

HashiCorp

Jackal: An XMPP Server Written in Go — First linked a few years ago, it’s continuing to see updates including this week with support for XEP-0280: Message Carbons.

Miguel Ángel Ortuño

Go-MySQL-Driver 1.6: A MySQL driver for database/sql — The first release in over a year. Upgrade now, MySQL fans.

Go SQL Drivers

ctop: A top-Like Interface for Container Metrics

VektorLab

quic-go: A QUIC Implementation in Pure Go

Lucas Clemente

Task 3.3: A Task Runner / make Alternative Written in Go

Andrey Nering

Ultimate Plumber: A Tool for Creating Linux Pipes with Instant Live Preview

Mateusz Czapliński

Senior Software Engineering Consultant - [100% Remote]  — Co-founded by Justin Searls, Test Double is an engineering consultancy on a mission to improve the way the world builds software. Work on challenging projects with a collaborative, passionate team. 100% employee owned, contract and full-time roles available.

TEST DOUBLE

Lead Backend Developer/Go (m/f/x) — We’re looking for a dev with a solid background in designing/implementing Go backend services to support us in improving our fast growing e-commerce platform, leading a remote team of software developers. Remote work possible (EU).

Refurbed

Lead Backend Engineer — We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to help us build a high accuracy online fraud prevention service

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