A Tale of Two Copies — This is quite the saga of chasing down a performance issue and you can actually feel Jeff’s exasperation at times. While the culprit is found, the journey is the takeaway.

Jeff Wendling

Common Anti-Patterns in Go Web Applications — An excellent checklist to post for your team to ensure they don’t slip into these patterns and, instead, write loosely coupled code that keeps them productive and happy.

Miłosz Smółka

Fast Redis Hosting and Analytics — RedisGreen databases include seamless online upgrades, SSL encryption, key size tracking, memory mapping, and more.

RedisGreen sponsor

Awesome Go: Over 2000 Go Links, Library and Tools — We link this epic resource of Go links, libraries, projects every several months and it’s still getting frequent updates (unlike many ‘awesome’ lists nowadays). As well as being a useful resource, if you have a Go project of your own, you can add it to the list and become a part of Go history :-)

Awesome Go

Handling Errors From Deferred Functions in Go — It’s easy to mishandle errors in this case, but just as easy to do it right.

Thomas Stringer

An Old Hacker's Tips on Staying Employed — These are great and reinforce a couple of global truths: 1. The tech you’re using doesn’t matter, and 2. No one cares about your career as much as you do, so take care of it.

Mad Ned

Running a Go Application on Bare Metal — The creator of eggos (a Go unikernel) shares some demos.

icexin

map[string]interface{} in Go — Part of a series, this article dives into Go’s answer to the untyped map including when and when not to use it.

Bitfield Consulting

Pigiron: A MIDI Routing Utility with Extensive OSC Interface — You’d use this if you have a variety of MIDI devices, sources or destinations and want to script them together, modify MIDI messages, etc.

Steven Jones

Dasel: Query and Update Data Structures from the Command Line — Think of jq, but for many more formats, such as JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, and CSV. Can be used as a CLI tool or as a Go package.

Tom Wright

Run Faster and Safer Than Linux with Open Source Unikernels

NanoVMs sponsor

Optimus: An Easy, Reliable, and Fast Workflow Orchestrator for Data Transformation, Data Modeling, etc. — Configure jobs (using YAML) for data transformations, such as BigQuery to Kafka, and add hooks to those jobs to handle any data workflow.

Open Data Platform

Croc: Easily and Securely Send Things From One Computer to Another — Croc has some cool features, such as cross-platform transfers, end-to-end encryption, and resumable transfers.

Zack Scholl