--- title: "How Go wants to 'embrace the enterprise'" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 426 published_at: "2022-09-02" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/426" --- Plus how to accurately benchmark, and the inside track on GopherCon. | #​426 — September 2, 2022 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/426) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/jbkqywpyrahpaoz4x3l1.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQm_whJZelc) ▶[How Go Became Its Best Self](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQm_whJZelc) — If you’re not familiar with Cameron yet, you soon will be – he’s recently become the product lead for Go at Google. At GopherCon Europe 2022 he spoke about how Google’s background led to the creation of Go, the phases of Go’s growth, how Google thinks about Go’s trajectory going forward, and why enterprise adoption is important. Cameron Balahan [How to Write Accurate Benchmarks in Go](https://teivah.medium.com/how-to-write-accurate-benchmarks-in-go-4266d7dd1a95) — 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 [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d39993ac.png)](https://www.courier.com/?utm_campaign=demand-gen&utm_source=email&utm_medium=go-newsletter-8-2&utm_content=homepage) [Go Notification Infrastructure: Stop Wasting Engineering Time](https://www.courier.com/?utm_campaign=demand-gen&utm_source=email&utm_medium=go-newsletter-8-2&utm_content=homepage) — 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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Harry Yoon has written one and [📘 shared it here in PDF form](https://www.codeandtips.com/download/golang-mini-reference-review-copy-20220824.pdf) – it's called _A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Modern Go Programming Language._ (It does say it's a _review_ copy, but the author shared it in public – it may disappear when the final is released, though.) - Talking of which, JFrog explains [a WebAssembly-related Go vulnerability](https://jfrog.com/blog/cve-2021-38297-analysis-of-a-go-web-assembly-vulnerability/) they found. - **CORRECTION:** Last week we gave the wrong byline for the [Restic](https://restic.net/) backup tool – its maintainer is actually Alexander Neumann. 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