--- title: "Microsoft goes Go for SQL Server's CLI" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 526 published_at: "2024-10-08" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/526" --- Plus new ways to deploy Go apps, reflecting on reflection, and Windows gets high resolution timers in Go. | Together with [![Frontend Masters logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_300,h_70/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:5/nk0tfdvalivacz8rw7rt.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/learn/languages/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=golangweekly&utm_content=languages) #​526 — October 8, 2024 [Unsub](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Web Version](https://golangweekly.com/issues/526) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/lslnwmkqhhlllg2vwoph.jpg)](https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-10-04-reflecting-on-reflect/) [Reflecting on Go Reflection](https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-10-04-reflecting-on-reflect/) — Truly a _reflective_ opinion piece, and probably a divisive one too. As a programmer who chooses to use _“the most mundane features”_ of any language, Go’s `[reflect](https://pkg.go.dev/reflect)` package wasn’t on Neil’s list of things to try, but he _“fell into the reflection pool”_ and.. he’s still not a fan. Neil Macneale [I'm Glad I Did It in Go](https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/glad-i-did-it-in-go) — Thorsten, author of [Writing an Interpreter in Go](https://interpreterbook.com/), reflects on how Go was the right language for the book, eight years on. Thorsten Ball [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/476b587a.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/learn/languages/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=golangweekly&utm_content=languages) [Elevate Your Backend Skills](https://frontendmasters.com/learn/languages/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=golangweekly&utm_content=languages) — Whether it's Python, Go, TypeScript, or AWS, you can gain fundamental knowledge across multiple programming languages, expanding your skillset via our growing range of learning paths and expert-led video courses. Frontend Masters sponsor [`sync.Map`: The Right Tool for the Right Job](https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-sync-map/index.html) — The latest in Phuong’s popular, illustrated guide to concurrency options in Go digs into `sync.Map`, a concurrency-safe map for reading and writing across multiple goroutines without requiring explicit locks. It’s not _always_ the perfect choice, though, as he discovers. Phuong Le **IN BRIEF:** - ⭐ Microsoft has unveiled [its new `go-sqlcmd` CLI app](https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd) for SQL Server and Azure SQL and it's written in Go! Anna Hoffman [▶️ quickly explains it here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CPdFs74Pkg) - Chris Siebenmann reflects on [Go 1.22 and 1.23's new 'small language features'](https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoNewSmallLanguageFeaturesNice) and how they make life easier. - [Go 1.23.2 and 1.22.8](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/NKEc8VT7Fz0/m/iRWv5Ww3AgAJ) were released. [Go Gets High-Resolution Timers on Windows](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/high-resolution-timers-windows/) — _“The Go Windows port added support for high-resolution timers in Go 1.23, boosting resolution from ~15.6ms to ~0.5ms.”_ Quim Muntal (Microsoft) [Writing a Circuit Breaker in Go](https://rednafi.com/go/circuit_breaker/) — When you need a mechanism to stop a failing operation being tried over and over, a _circuit breaker_ provides a graceful way to detect failures and recover from them with a cooldown period. Redowan Delowar [Using Go Embed](https://www.bytesizego.com/blog/go-embed) — The `go:embed` directive, around since Go 1.16, allows you to embed static files into your binary. Matt Boyle [Distributed Transactions in Go: Read Before You Try](https://threedots.tech/post/distributed-transactions-in-go) — How to approach transactions that need to span more than one service. Miłosz Smółka [Product for Engineers: A Newsletter Helping Flex Your Product Muscle](https://newsletter.posthog.com/?utm_source=gonews&utm_campaign=gonews) — Product for Engineers details the skills and strategies product engineers need to succeed. PostHog sponsor 📄 [Implementing OpenSSL-Backed Go Cryptographic Algorithms](https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/10/04/openssl-go-cryptographic-algorithms) Derek Parker (Red Hat) 📄 [Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo](https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/10/07/some-notes-on-upgrading-hugo/) – [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) is a popular Go-based static site generator. Julia Evans 📄 [Securing gRPC Services with JWT Authentication in Go](https://www.bytesizego.com/blog/securing-grpc-golang) Chris Shepherd 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/siyqcfnlgetw2l5ehmap.jpg)](https://world.hey.com/dhh/kamal-2-thou-need-not-paas-c9e8bd53) [Kamal 2: Thou Need Not PaaS](https://world.hey.com/dhh/kamal-2-thou-need-not-paas-c9e8bd53) — [Kamal](https://kamal-deploy.org/) is a container-based deployment tool from 37Signals, best known for their work on _Ruby on Rails_. It’s language agnostic though, and [▶️ the screencast demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC4b2teG_hc) shows off deploying a simple Go app quickly, before moving on to a Ruby example. Certainly a viable new deployment option for Go apps on self-managed servers. David Heinemeier Hansson [Sidekick: Bare Metal to Production Ready in Minutes](https://github.com/MightyMoud/sidekick) — I haven’t tried this yet, but am itching to do so ASAP. Sidekick aims to give you a [Fly.io](https://fly.io/)-style single command deployment process out of the box for any VPS you have to hand. Inspired by Kamal (above) but is written in Go. Mahmoud Mousa 📰 Classifieds [Hookdeck](https://hookdeck.com/discover/goweekly?ref=goweekly-526): Stripe-level DX for all your webhooks. --- Learn how to build fine-grained authorization for your Go application using open-source software, directly from the founders and team behind[SpiceDB](https://learn.spicedb.io/?utm_source=sponsored_newsletter&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=golang_newsletter). [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/nadjwybcbjqtuxbvvuqc.jpg)](https://github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty) [go-pretty: Pretty Print Tables, Lists and Text on the Terminal](https://github.com/jedib0t/go-pretty) — Utilities to prettify console output of tables, lists, progress-bars, text, etc. with a heavy emphasis on customization. Naveen Mahalingam [Giu 0.9: A Dear ImGui-Based Cross Platform GUI Framework](https://github.com/AllenDang/giu) — Create GUI apps in Go on top of the [Dear ImGui](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) GUI library. [v0.9](https://github.com/AllenDang/giu/releases/tag/v0.9.0) isn’t a big release but fleshes out the framework’s features and adds more documentation. Allen Dang [Watermill: Library for Building Event-Driven Apps](https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/watermill) — A library for working with message streams (over numerous channels like Kafka, RabbitMQ, HTTP or even MySQL binlogs) to build event driven apps. Three Dots Labs [xmlquery: An XPath Library for Querying XML Documents](https://github.com/antchfx/xmlquery) — For plucking out all elements with certain names or attributes, say. antchfx - [tk 9.0](https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/tk9.0) – CGo-free cross platform GUI toolkit for Go, a la Tkinter. - [River 0.13](https://github.com/riverqueue/river/releases/tag/v0.13.0) – Fast and reliable Postgres-powered background jobs for Go. - [OSV-Scanner 1.9](https://github.com/google/osv-scanner) – Dependency vulnerability scanner. - [go-github 66.0](https://github.com/google/go-github/releases/tag/v66.0.0) – Client library for the GitHub v3 API. - [Git Town 16.4](https://github.com/git-town/git-town/releases/tag/v16.4.0) – Git branch management tool. - [Ebiten 2.8.1](https://ebitengine.org/en/documents/2.8.html#v2.8.1) – Go's simple 2D game engine. Curated by Peter Cooper and [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict). 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