Cgo lets Go packages call C code (or code with C bindings) but you need to take care with overheads, memory management, and more.

Rick Hudson discusses the motivation, performance, and technical challenges of Go’s low latency concurrent garbage collection and why the approach fits Go well.

“[N]o, there is nothing wrong with Go’s map implementation. But if there is nothing wrong with the implementation, why do maps and panic reports commonly find themselves in close proximity?”

This free ebook contains years of collected wisdom from experts and is the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database from Go programs. After reading, you’ll know how to use database/sql properly, avoiding many mistakes and ensuring high performance and correct code.

Superdog is a library for managing strong cryptography in development and test environments. It also includes a wrapper to Vault to manage your keys.

A distributed SQL database with the best features of both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL. It’s compatible with MySQL’s protocols so you can just drop it in.

A look at integration testing by having dependencies (such as MySQL) running in Docker containers. Dockertest will also help you accomplish this.

Minor release with bug fixes to the compiler, linker, and the mime/multipart, net, and runtime packages.