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Range-Over Functions in Go

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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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Feb 7, 2017

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Design Philosophy On Integrity

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Updated on February 10th, 2017 Prelude This post is part of a series of posts designed to make you think about your own design philosophy on different topics. If you …

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Jan 31, 2017

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Develop Your Design Philosophy

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Prelude This post is part of a series of posts designed to make you think about your own design philosophy on different topics. I will not be laying out direct examples …

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Dec 5, 2016

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Video: Design Philosophy in Go

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This is a talk that I gave at the Vancouver Meetup on November 29th, 2016. The talk covers topics around developing your own design philosophy with a focus on decoupling …

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Nov 3, 2016

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Application Focused API Design

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“I think it’s ok to do heinous stuff to test an API if it makes it more usable by others.” - Nate Finch Prelude If you are new to Go, it might help to read these …

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Oct 21, 2016

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Avoid Interface Pollution

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Introduction Interfaces should only be used when their added value is clear. I see too many packages that declare interfaces unnecessarily, sometimes just for the sake of …

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Oct 9, 2016

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Reducing Type Hierarchies

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Introduction I see a lot of developers coming to Go from object oriented programming languages such as C# and Java. Because these developers have been trained to use type …

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May 12, 2016

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Installing Go And Your Workspace

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Introduction If you are new to Linux or the Mac you might find installing Go to be a bit confusing. It was for me when I started learning Go. Go was the reason I stopped …

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May 5, 2016

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Copying Interface Values In Go

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I am constantly thinking about the Go language and how things work. Lately I have been thinking how everything in Go is by value. We see this when we pass values to …

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Sep 13, 2015

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Composition with Go

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Composition goes beyond the mechanics of type embedding. It’s a paradigm we can leverage to design better APIs and to build larger programs from smaller parts. It …