Iteration has long been one of the more fragmented areas of Go, with developers relying on ad hoc patterns to traverse custom data structures. This article explores the range-over-functions …
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Jan 24, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 19
Introduction In episode 18, Bill defined the Go type that will represent a transaction and implemented the methods to validate one. While developing the transaction type, …
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Jan 19, 2023
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Table driven tests in Go
Introduction Table tests are a great way to test different inputs and associated outputs for a function in Go. To write a table test, you define a slice of some data …
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Jan 19, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 17
Introduction In episode 16, Bill implemented additional means of verification for his blockchain’s transactions. The first update he made was to verify if a transaction …
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Jan 17, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 16
Introduction In episode 15, Bill architected a solution to ensure all the users on his blockchain were given a unique identifier. His approach consisted of essentially …
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Jan 17, 2023
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Writing an HTTP handler function in Go
Introduction When an API requires implementation details from the user, many developers use an interface for help. However, another way to allow developers to provide …
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Jan 12, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 15
Introduction In episode 14, Bill architected a solution to digitally sign the transactions on his blockchain. His solution retrieved the private key by : loading private …
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Jan 12, 2023
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Writing testable examples in Go
Introduction Google developed Go to be an alternative to C++ with the internet and scale in mind. Go’s toolchain automates tasks that are easily overlooked, and amongst …
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Jan 11, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 13
Introduction In episode 12, Bill laid out his strategy to handle data hashing on his blockchain. The first step he took was to create a package to handle the …
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Jan 11, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 14
Introduction In episode 13, Bill discussed the idea of adding salt to a hash and how modern crypto-currency blockchains use it to better interpret requests sent to nodes. …