---
title: "A full backend in a single binary"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 419
published_at: "2022-07-08"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/419"
---

Plus Go 1.19's first release candidate, and delving into Caddy. |        

#​419 — July 8, 2022 

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[PocketBase: A Go-Powered, Open Source Backend in One Binary](https://pocketbase.io/) — It’s early days but certainly an interesting idea that could replace Firebase in numerous scenarios. Uses SQLite, provides authentication and realtime features, plus you get an admin dashboard built-in with file and user management. [Live demo](https://pocketbase.io/demo/) and [rather nice docs.](https://pocketbase.io/docs/) 

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[Go 1.19 Release Candidate 1 Released](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Lu8ODY19HhA) — Beta period over, now it’s on to the RCs! You can [download everything](https://go.dev/dl/#go1.19rc1) from the usual place, enjoy the [draft release notes](https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.19), or sit patiently and wait for the final release expected in August. 

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[Serverless Go with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB](https://rtoch.com/posts/serverless-golang-with-lambda-and-dynamo/) — A code heavy walkthrough. 

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🛠 Code & Tools  

[Delve 1.9: The Popular Debugging Tool for Go](https://github.com/go-delve/delve) — v1.9 of the popular alternative to [GDB](https://go.dev/doc/gdb) adds support for Go 1.19 (due next month), autocomplete for local variables, and support for function call injection on ARM64, plus the usual fixes and tweaks. If you want to see Delve in action, BTW, [▶️ this four-minute screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmNVd7FbSYs) by Felix Geisendörfer shows it off quite well. 

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[Do: A Dependency Injection Toolkit Built on Generics](https://github.com/samber/do) — Uses Go 1.18+ generics instead of reflection and therefore is typesafe. 

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[Slacker 0.1: A Slack Bot Framework](https://github.com/shomali11/slacker) — Promises a ‘low friction’ way to create Slack text chat bots. 

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[go-otelroundtripper: An http.RoundTripper That Emits Open Telemetry Metrics](https://github.com/NdoleStudio/go-otelroundtripper) — Looks like this could be very useful if you need to consume external APIs and want an easy way to get metrics. 

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