How to Write Accurate Benchmarks in Go — An excerpt from the author’s book 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, this post describes four common issues with benchmarking. I’d bet we’ve all tripped over at least one of these..

Teiva Harsanyi

Go Notification Infrastructure: Stop Wasting Engineering Time — Too many engineering resources are wasted on notification template building and routing rules. Pass this on to Product, Support, and Security. Heck, even if the engineers want to quickly assemble templates: use our UI or JSON based syntax, Elemental.

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Building a Full-Stack Webapp with Bud and Go — Bud is a relatively new Go framework mildly akin to something like Rails or Laravel. Here’s how to get started.

Alex Merced

Ebitengine 2.4: The Simple 2D Game Library for Go — The Go 2D game library formerly known as Ebiten is back and ups the portability game by dropping a dependency so that it can work in ‘truly pure Go’ on Windows. There are numerous other smaller enhancements. Such a fantastic project.

Hajime Hoshi

HaxMap 0.3: A Fast, Memory Efficient Concurrent Hashmap — We only featured this a month ago but development has progressed very quickly and it’s a lot faster. It supports int, uint, uintptr, and strings as keys, and benchmarks well against other options. It requires Go 1.19 but now works on 32 and 64 bit systems.

Anish Mukherjee

Don’t Let Your Issue Tracker Be a Four-Letter Word. Use Shortcut

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wazero: A Zero Dependency WebAssembly Runtime for Go Devs — “Being pure Go, wazero adds only a small amount of size to your binary. Meanwhile, wazero’s API gives features you expect in Go, such as safe concurrency and context propagation.” However, it’s still early days.

Tetrate

Hanko: Passkey-First Approach to Authentication — An open source, FIDO2-certified user authentication system that wants to go beyond passwords by using passkey technology (a la Touch ID or mobile devices).

Hanko