Managing project tools with Go
Comparing approaches for managing non-application tool dependencies in Go projects, including go tool, tools.go, and go run.
Posts tagged go
Manually install and auto-switch Golang versions
A custom shell-based solution for automatically installing and switching Go versions when changing directories.
Go Concurrency Patterns
Essential Go concurrency patterns including goroutines, channels, mutexes, and common synchronization techniques.
Bitwise Operations in Go
Using bitwise operators in Go to manipulate individual flags within a single integer for compact state management.
Programming at the edge with Fastly Compute
A hands-on guide to building and deploying edge applications with Fastly Compute using JavaScript, Go, or Rust compiled to Wasm.
Go Typed Nil
Why an interface holding a nil pointer is not itself nil in Go, and how typed nils can cause unexpected behavior.
Beginner's guide to creating a Terraform Provider
A step-by-step guide to writing a custom Terraform provider in Go using the terraform-plugin-sdk.
Manage multiple versions of the Go programming language
How to install, manage, and switch between multiple Go versions using official tools and custom shell functions.
Setting up Neovim for Rust and Go development
Configuring Neovim with LSP support for Rust and Go development, including required executables and plugin setup.
Go Style Guide
A personal Go style guide covering naming, error handling, interfaces, slice gotchas, and function design patterns.
Reflection in Go
A practical walk-through of Go's reflect package using a real CLI flags library as the guiding example.
Go Arrays and Slices
A deep dive into how Go arrays and slices work, including memory layout, append behavior, and capacity gotchas.
Thinking about Interfaces in Go
A practical guide to designing flexible Go code using interfaces, dependency injection, and programming to abstractions.
Go Reverse Proxy
Building a reverse proxy in Go using httputil.ReverseProxy, from simple single-origin to configurable multi-route setups.
Profiling Go
Techniques and tools for profiling Go applications including pprof, benchmarks, and memory management analysis.
Dev Environments Within Docker Containers
How to use Docker containers as clean, isolated development environments for Python and Go projects.
Hitchhikers Guide to Go
A comprehensive cheat sheet covering Go fundamentals, from types and control flow to concurrency and testing.
gRPC for Beginners
An introduction to Google's gRPC framework covering Protocol Buffers, service definitions, and building clients and servers.
RPC Variations in Go
Exploring different RPC implementations in Go including net/rpc, JSON-RPC, and gRPC with Protocol Buffers.
Understanding Golang's Func Type
How Go's http.HandlerFunc adapter uses a func type to satisfy the Handler interface and enable flexible HTTP routing.
Thread Safe Concurrency
An exploration of shared memory vs message passing concurrency models including threads, locks, actors, and CSP.