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Posts tagged “Go”
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January 27th, 2026
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Kubernetes Memory Limits and Go
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October 21, 2025
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Getting Friendly With CPU Caches
Understanding how your data structures interact with hardware is one of the most powerful ways to improve application performance. This blogpost explores how CPU caches …
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September 23, 2025
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Kubernetes CPU Limits and Go
Kubernetes CPU limits can look straightforward on the surface, but their impact on application performance is anything but simple. This article unpacks how Go services …
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August 26, 2025
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Garbage Collection In Go : Part III - GC Pacing
Go’s garbage collector is designed not only to manage memory safely but also to pace itself intelligently, striking a balance between low latency and high throughput. …
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July 15, 2025
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Garbage Collection In Go : Part II - GC Traces
Originally published in 2019, this article is part two of a three-part series exploring Go’s garbage collector. Though the Go runtime has continued to evolve, the …
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June 10, 2025
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Garbage Collection In Go : Part I - Semantics
This article was originally published in 2018, yet its core insights into Go’s garbage collection model remain highly relevant for developers today. While some …
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May 13, 2025
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Scheduling In Go : Part III - Concurrency
Although originally written in 2018, the following concepts remain essential for developers working with concurrency. This blogpost focuses on concurrency, …
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April 4, 2024
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Scheduling In Go : Part II - Go Scheduler
This blogpost is the second installment in a three-part series exploring the mechanics and semantics of the Go scheduler. Despite being published in 2018, the content …
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Mar 4, 2025
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Scheduling In Go : Part I - OS Scheduler
Although this blogpost was originally published in 2018, the concepts and principles discussed remain crucial for building efficient and performant multithreaded …
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Feb 10, 2025
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Context Package Semantics In Go
Although first introduced in 2014, the Context package remains a crucial component of Go programming, enabling efficient management of request-scoped data, deadlines, …
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November 26, 2024
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Scalable JSON Streaming with HTTP and Go - Ep.5
Introduction: Welcome to the final episode of the JSON for Engineers series! In this concluding session, we tackle the challenges of working with large JSON datasets, …
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November 15, 2024
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JSON Handling and Type Management with Large Datasets in Go - Ep.4
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 4 of the JSON for Engineers series! In this episode, we tackle the complexities of working with JSON data, especially when dealing with …
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November 1, 2024
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Managing JSON Field Tags and Value Handling in Go - Ep.3
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 3 of JSON for Engineers! In this episode, Miki Tebeka explores the intricacies of JSON field mapping and value handling, especially when …
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October 18, 2024
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Exploring JSON Encoding and Data Handling in Go - Ep.2
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 2 of JSON for Engineers! In this episode, we explore the unique characteristics of JSON as a schema-less format, discussing both its …
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October 04, 2024
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Data Integrity with JSON Serialization - Ep.1
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 1 of JSON for Engineers! In this first episode, Miki Tebeka dives into the fundamentals of serialization, with a special focus on JSON, …
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September 20, 2024
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Ep. 7: Enhancing AI with Message Chaining and Accuracy Scoring
Introduction: Welcome to the final episode of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this episode, Daniel Whitenack takes the concepts you’ve been learning and shows …
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September 06, 2024
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2 min read
Ep. 6: AI Techniques: Real-Time Web Parsing and Contextual Conversations
Introduction: In Episode 6 of the Intro to Generative A.I. series, Daniel shifts the focus from basic search techniques to more dynamic, on-the-fly AI applications. He …
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August 23, 2024
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Ep. 5: Key Techniques for Accurate AI-Driven Information Retrieval
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 5 of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this episode, Daniel explores practical techniques for enhancing AI models’ ability to …
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August 09, 2024
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Ep. 4: Streamlining Prompt Engineering and Context Handling in Generative AI
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 4 of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this episode, Daniel dives into the essential technique of prompt engineering, focusing on …
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August 07, 2024
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Ep. 12: Implementing Robust Transaction Handling in Go
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 12 of our Ultimate Software Design series! In this final installment, Bill guides us through the advanced implementation of transaction …
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July 31, 2024
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Ep. 11: Enhancing Go Code with Effective Application Layer Tests
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 11 of our Ultimate Software Design series! In this episode, Bill delves into the intricacies of implementing robust application layer …
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July 26, 2024
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Ep. 3: Proper Prompt Formatting for Enhanced AI Model Performance
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 3 of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this episode, Daniel explores the critical aspect of prompt formatting when working with AI …
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July 24, 2024
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Ep. 10: Building Secure Go Systems: Key Management, Middleware, and Error Handling
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 10 of our Ultimate Software Design series! In this episode, Bill dives into the integration of authentication and authorization …
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Jul 17, 2024
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Ep. 9: Go Package Design: Authorization and API Structures
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 9 of our Ultimate Software Design series! In this episode, Bill delves into the intricacies of implementing robust authorization and API …
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June 27, 2024
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2 min read
Ep. 2: Mastering LLM Integration with Go and Prediction Guard
Introduction: Welcome to Episode 2 of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this segment, Daniel dives into the practical aspects of working with large language models …
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July 03, 2024
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Ep. 8: Enhancing Go Application Security with JWT and OPA
Introduction: In this segment, Bill delves into the fundamental aspects of authentication and authorization, equipping Go developers with essential knowledge and advanced …
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June 21, 2024
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Ep. 1: Enhancing Your Go Projects with Generative AI: Exploring LLMs
Introduction: Welcome to the first episode of our “Intro to Generative A.I” series! In this episode, Daniel dives into the intriguing world of large language …
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June 26, 2024
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Ep. 7: Building Resilient Go Applications: Key Error Handling Techniques
Introduction: Going into more detail on error handling, Bill provides a comprehensive overview of effective strategies and best practices for Go developers. By exploring …
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June 19, 2024
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Ep. 6: GoRoutines and Error Handling: Essential Techniques for Software Engineers
Introduction: Continue the dive into the complexities of Go’s concurrency model in this segment of the “Ultimate Software Design” series, where Bill …
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June 12, 2024
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Ep. 5: Efficient Concurrency in Go: Managing GoRoutines and Load Shedding
Introduction: In this installment, Bill delves into the concept of load shedding in Go, explaining its importance in managing GoRoutines and ensuring clean shutdowns.
How …
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June 05, 2024
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Ep. 4: Mastering Kubernetes Networking: Essential Insights for Efficient Deployment
Introduction: In this detailed discussion, Bill delves into the critical aspects of networking within Kubernetes clusters, emphasizing the necessity of properly defining …
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May 28, 2024
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Ep. 3: Mastering Kubernetes: Setting Up Environments with Kind
Introduction: In this installment of the Ultimate Software Design series, Bill guides us through setting up a Kubernetes environment using Kubernetes inside Docker …
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May 22, 2024
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Ep. 2: Elevating Software Design in Go: Package Architecture in Modern Development
Introduction: In this insightful episode, Bill dives deep into the realm of package design, shedding light on its crucial role in software development. Here are three key …
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May 15, 2024
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Ep. 1: Mastering Software Design: Architectural Layers and Coding Modes
Introduction: Embark on a journey into the heart of software design with the Ultimate Software Design series, where Bill navigates through the intricacies of crafting …
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Apr 15, 2024
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Ep. 1: Defending Against Memory Breaches: Exploring Rust and Go's Safety Mechanisms
Introduction: Rust’s memory safety features are advantageous to Rust developers because they:
Ensure robust protection against buffer overflows and underflows, …
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Jan 15, 2024
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Ultimate Go Tour
I have always appreciated the Go Team investing time on providing the community with the Go Tour. This website is designed to help developers get started in learning the …
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Sep 21, 2023
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Implementing Enumerations In Go
Introduction Prior to coding in Go, I was writing software in C#. In C# enumerations can be declared and the associated type can be used in functions and as fields in a …
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Sep 8, 2023
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Slices Package: Contains, Delete, and Equal
Series Here are all the posts in this series about the slices package.
Binary Search Clip, Clone, and Compact Compare Contains, Delete, and Equal Introduction In the last …
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Aug 25, 2023
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Slices Package: Compare
Series Here are all the posts in this series about the slices package.
Binary Search Clip, Clone, and Compact Compare Contains, Delete, and Equal Introduction In the last …
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Aug 18, 2023
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Slices Package: Clip, Clone, and Compact
Series Here are all the posts in this series about the slices package.
Binary Search Clip, Clone, and Compact Compare Contains, Delete, and Equal Introduction In the …
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Aug 2, 2023
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Slices Package: Binary Search
Series Here are all the posts in this series about the slices package.
Binary Search Clip, Clone, and Compact Compare Contains, Delete, and Equal Introduction Go’s most …
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Apr 3, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Extensible API Handlers Ep. 10
Introduction In episode 9, Miki discussed how a command flag can be decoded into a user defined type with the Value interface. As a recap, the Value interface consists of …
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Mar 27, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Parsing Command Flags Ep. 9
Introduction In episode 8, Miki developed a Go HTTP client that had a method to check the health of a theoretical API. The method would construct the request URL and …
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Mar 20, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Testing with a Mock Interface Ep. 8
Introduction In episode 7, Miki discussed design considerations to keep in mind while creating interfaces in Go with the first idea he proposed being that an interface …
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Mar 13, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Interface Design Considerations Ep. 7
Introduction In episode 6, Miki built a logger package with the aim of making it as versatile as possible. To achieve this, he constructed his logger object with a …
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Mar 7, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Interface Type Assertion Ep. 6
Introduction In episode 5, Miki wrote a function that counted the number of lines in a file with interfaces. The first thing his function did was to open a file with Go’s …
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Feb 27, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Determine LOC with io.Writer Ep. 5
Introduction In episode 4, Miki defined an enumerated type that satisfied Go’s fmt.Stringer interface. By implementing the fmt.Stringer interface, Miki can specify how …
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Feb 21, 2023
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2 min read
Interfaces 101 : Go's Logging Interface Ep. 4
Introduction In episode 3, Miki implemented a type that satisfied Go’s error interface. The odd thing about his type was it would be considered not-nil although no value …
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Feb 13, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Error Handling With Go Ep. 3
Introduction In episode 2, Miki examined the impact interfaces have on the performance of a Go program. To perform this experiment, Miki invoked a type’s method in two …
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Feb 8, 2023
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2 min read
Interfaces 101 : Heap Escape Ep. 2
Introduction In episode 1, Miki had two functions that performed the similar operation, but returned different types. To refactor this, Miki rewrote both functions as a …
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Jan 31, 2023
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Interfaces 101 : Implementing Generics with Interfaces Ep. 1
Introduction Go interfaces are beneficial to Go developers because they:
Allow interfaces to separate mechanism from behavior. Increase flexibility of function …
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Jan 27, 2023
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 20
Introduction In episode 19, Bill designed and implemented the data structure for an account on his blockchain. This type will have a nonce field to ensure incoming …
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Jan 24, 2023
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 18
Introduction In episode 17, Bill began to design an in-memory accounting database that will store the account balances on his blockchain. To build this database, Bill …
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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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1 min read
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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1 min read
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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1 min read
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. …
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Jan 4, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 12
Introduction In episode 11, Bill highlighted the issue of identity verification and provided a solution to this problem. The solution proposed was to cryptographically …
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Jan 3, 2023
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 10
Introduction In episode 9, Bill introduced the idea of the genesis record and its role in his blockchain. As a recap, the genesis record will be used to customize the …
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Jan 3, 2023
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 11
Introduction In episode 10, Bill dove into the technical implementation of his genesis record and defined a custom Go type representing the record. While doing so, he …
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Dec 21, 2022
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Smart Contracts Using Solidity and Go: Basic Contract
go training golang blockchain smart-contract
Introduction I made it my mission in 2022 to learn everything I could about blockchain and as the year ends, I feel like I accomplished my goal. Love it, hate it, or …
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Dec 20, 2022
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 9
Introduction In episode 8, Bill wanted to build a blockchain in Go and began to lay the groundwork for the project. Go is a good choice because its standard library has …
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Dec 19, 2022
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2 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 7
Introduction In episode 6, Bill gives an overview of what consensus algorithms are and how these algorithms ensure distributed databases are in sync. Moving forward Bill …
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Dec 19, 2022
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 8
Introduction In the first part of the series, Bill designed a dependency management system. The dependency manager needed to be distributed, transparent, …
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Dec 16, 2022
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1 min read
Generics vs. Interfaces
Introduction In this video, Paulo shows the benefit of leveraging generic functions to write less code that does more. He starts by walking you through an API server he …
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Dec 16, 2022
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2 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 5
Introduction In case you missed episode 4, Bill attempted to integrate current database sharing solutions to solve the “database ownership” problem his dependency manager …
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Dec 16, 2022
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 6
Introduction In the last video, Bill left off talking about proof of work (PoW) algorithms. In a distributed and decentralized environment, PoW used to be the gold …
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Dec 16, 2022
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1 min read
Understanding Go's Time Format
Introduction Most apps that work with time values eventually need to display time to a user. Go has a unique way of allowing you to specify how to display time values …
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Dec 14, 2022
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Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 3
Introduction In episode 2, Bill designed a database for his dependency manager to enable Go developers to have reproducible,durable and secure builds. This database will …
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Dec 14, 2022
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 4
Introduction In episode 3, Bill needed to figure out how to share ownership of his dependency manager’s database in a secure and efficient manner. Bill is the only …
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Dec 13, 2022
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 2
Introduction In episode 1, Bill finished by describing the dependency management conundrum Go faced in its early days. Prior to the Go team providing the module system, …
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Dec 12, 2022
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1 min read
Ultimate Go: Advanced Engineering Episode 1
Introduction In this video, Bill will introduce the concepts of what a blockchain is, the benefits of a blockchain, and the network environment it operates in. Bill …
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Jun 6, 2022
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Practical Uses Of Blockchain Technology
Introduction A blockchain is an integrated solution of different computer science problems in the form of a single, append-only, publicly available, transparent, and …
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May 5, 2022
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10 min read
Blockchain In Go: Part IV: Fraud Detection
Introduction In the first three posts, I explained there were four aspects of a blockchain that this series would explore with a backing implementation provided by the …
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Apr 19, 2022
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Blockchain In Go: Part III: Redundant Storage And Consensus
Introduction In the first two posts, I explained there were four aspects of a blockchain that this series would explore with a backing implementation provided by the …
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Mar 8, 2022
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Blockchain In Go: Part II: Transaction Distribution and Synchronization
Introduction In the first post, I explained there were four aspects of a blockchain that this series would explore with a backing implementation provided by the Ardan …
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Feb 12, 2022
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Blockchain In Go: Part I: Digital Accounts, Signatures and Verification
Introduction This is the first post in a series that will explore the semantics and implementation details of the Ardan blockchain project. The code is a reference …
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Sep 29, 2020
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8 min read
Generics Part 03: Struct Types and Data Semantics
Series Index Generics Part 01: Basic Syntax
Generics Part 02: Underlying Types
Generics Part 03: Struct Types and Data Semantics
Introduction In the previous post, I …
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Sep 15, 2020
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9 min read
Python and Go : Part IV - Using Python in Memory
Series Index Python and Go: Part I - gRPC
Python and Go: Part II - Extending Python With Go
Python and Go: Part III - Packaging Python Code
Python and Go: Part IV - Using …
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Aug 18, 2020
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10 min read
Generics Part 02: Underlying Types
Changes The draft is a living document which means these posts will need to change over time. This section documents when changes have taken place to this post.
21/08/20 …
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Aug 11, 2020
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6 min read
Python and Go : Part III - Packaging Python Code
Series Index Python and Go: Part I - gRPC
Python and Go: Part II - Extending Python With Go
Python and Go: Part III - Packaging Python Code
Python and Go: Part IV - Using …
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Jul 23, 2020
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Generics Part 01: Basic Syntax
Changes The draft is a living document which means these posts will need to change over time. This section documents when changes have taken place to this post.
21/08/20 …
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Jul 6, 2020
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9 min read
Python and Go : Part II - Extending Python With Go
Series Index Python and Go: Part I - gRPC
Python and Go: Part II - Extending Python With Go
Python and Go: Part III - Packaging Python Code
Python and Go: Part IV - Using …
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Jun 26, 2020
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10 min read
Dgraph Database Semantics
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Jun 8, 2020
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Python and Go : Part I - gRPC
Series Index Python and Go: Part I - gRPC
Python and Go: Part II - Extending Python With Go
Python and Go: Part III - Packaging Python Code
Python and Go: Part IV - Using …
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May 15, 2020
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15 min read
Dgraph, GraphQL, Schemas, and CRUD
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Apr 16, 2020
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Getting Started With Dgraph and GraphQL+-
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Apr 13, 2020
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12 min read
Modules Part 06: Vendoring
Series Index Why and What
Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Minimal Version Selection
Mirrors, Checksums and Athens
Gopls Improvements
Vendoring
Introduction It’s no …
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Apr 8, 2020
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Modules Part 05: Gopls Improvements
Series Index Why and What
Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Minimal Version Selection
Mirrors, Checksums and Athens
Gopls Improvements
Vendoring
Prelude This is a guest …
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Apr 3, 2020
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Docker Images : Part III - Going Farther To Reduce Image Size
Series Index Reducing Image Size
Details Specific To Different Languages
Going Farther To Reduce Image Size
Introduction In the first two parts of this series, we covered …
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Feb 24, 2020
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Docker Images : Part II - Details Specific To Different Languages
Series Index Reducing Image Size
Details Specific To Different Languages
Going Farther To Reduce Image Size
Introduction In the first part, we introduced multi-stage …
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Feb 10, 2020
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17 min read
Modules Part 04: Mirrors, Checksums and Athens
Series Index Why and What
Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Minimal Version Selection
Mirrors, Checksums and Athens
Gopls Improvements
Vendoring
Introduction One of the …
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Feb 4, 2020
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14 min read
Docker Images : Part I - Reducing Image Size
Series Index Reducing Image Size
Details Specific To Different Languages
Going Farther To Reduce Image Size
Introduction When getting started with containers, it’s …
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Dec 18, 2019
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17 min read
Modules Part 03: Minimal Version Selection
Series Index Why and What
Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Minimal Version Selection
Mirrors, Checksums and Athens
Gopls Improvements
Vendoring
Introduction Every …
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Dec 2, 2019
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15 min read
Modules Part 02: Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Series Index Why and What
Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Minimal Version Selection
Mirrors, Checksums and Athens
Gopls Improvements
Vendoring
Introduction Modules is …
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Nov 16, 2019
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7 min read
Flutter: Forbes had it right
“Flutter and Fuchsia. In 2019 you will see these two words everywhere, and now is your chance to get ahead of the curve.” - Todd Fabacher, writing for Forbes
Forbes saw …
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Oct 10, 2019
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9 min read
Modules Part 01: Why And What
Series Index Why and What
Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Minimal Version Selection
Mirrors, Checksums and Athens
Gopls Improvements
Vendoring
Introduction Modules …
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Oct 3, 2019
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17 min read
Integration Testing in Go: Part II - Set-up and Writing Tests
go Training golang testing integration tests
Integration tests give insights to the end-to-end operation of web services. In part 2 of this 2 part series over integration testing in Go we explore how to configure and manage external systems before and during testing as well as the actual act of writing integration tests.
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Aug 26, 2019
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3 min read
Why is DevOps Important?
1. What are four keys for great DevOps? Collaboration: DevOps requires collaboration, both within teams and between teams. Good communication between teams implies to …
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Jul 22, 2019
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2 min read
Caddy Partnership With Light Code Labs
Ardan Labs (a leader in building Go enterprise software) is excited to announce that we have partnered with Light Code Labs and Matt Holt to bring Caddy into the Ardan …
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Jul 1, 2019
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4 min read
An Open Letter To The Go Team About Try
“Once a language gets complex enough, programming in it is more like carving out a subset from an infinite sea of features, most of which we’ll never learn. Once a …
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Apr 18, 2019
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8 min read
Concurrency Trap #2: Incomplete Work
One of the traps of concurrency is “incomplete work” which occurs when a program terminates before outstanding Goroutines complete. Depending on the program, this may be a serious problem. This post demonstrates the trap and discusses possible solutions.
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Mar 18, 2019
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12 min read
Integration Testing in Go: Part I - Executing Tests with Docker
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Dec 19, 2018
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6 min read
Goroutine Leaks - The Abandoned Receivers
Goroutine Leaks are a common cause of memory leaks in Go programs. In my previous post, I presented an introduction to Goroutine leaks and provided one example of a common mistake that many Go developers make. Continuing that work, this post presents another scenario on how Goroutines could be leaked.
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Nov 12, 2018
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8 min read
Goroutine Leaks - The Forgotten Sender
Goroutine leaks are a common source of memory leaks in concurrent programs. This post defines Goroutine leaks and provides one example of a leak that is easy to miss in production code.
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Aug 14, 2018
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3 min read
Creating the Art for Gopher Kart
Go Gopher GopherCon GopherKart
In the months leading up to GopherCon, my wife Jamilet and I had come up with the idea of creating a “small” browser-based game for the convention using the racing …
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Jun 27, 2018
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6 min read
Ultimate Go Service
Introduction I teach a class called Ultimate Go. The class is three days long and teaches you the history, mechanics and semantics of the Go programming language. The …
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Apr 28, 2018
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Bounds Check Elimination In Go
Introduction One day I was talking to Damian Gryski in Slack about some performance improvements he made to his go-metro package. When I first looked at the changes I was …
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Mar 23, 2018
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Interface Values Are Valueless
Introduction I’ve been seeing a lot of question about interfaces lately on Slack. Most of the time the answers are technical and focus on implementation details. …
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Feb 20, 2018
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Focus On Being Precise
Introduction I was guided for many years to write functions that are generalized and to create layers upon layers of abstraction so things don’t break as business …
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Jan 22, 2018
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Escape-Analysis Flaws
Prelude It will be helpful to read this four-part series first on escape analysis and data semantics. Details on how to read an escape analysis report and pprof output …
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Oct 24, 2017
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The Behavior Of Channels
Introduction When I started to work with Go’s channels for the first time, I made the mistake of thinking about channels as a data structure. I saw channels as a queue …
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Jul 15, 2017
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10 min read
Interface Semantics
Prelude If you want to put this post in some better context, I suggest reading the following series of posts, which lay out some other fundamental and relevant design …
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Jun 27, 2017
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For Range Semantics
Prelude These are good posts to read first to better understand the material presented in this post:
Index of the four part series:
Language Mechanics On Stacks And …
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Jun 8, 2017
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14 min read
Design Philosophy On Data And Semantics
Prelude This is the final post in a four part series discussing the mechanics and design behind pointers, stacks, heaps, escape analysis and value/pointer semantics in …
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Jun 1, 2017
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15 min read
Language Mechanics On Memory Profiling
Prelude This is the third post in a four part series that will provide an understanding of the mechanics and design behind pointers, stacks, heaps, escape analysis and …
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May 26, 2017
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Language Mechanics On Escape Analysis
Prelude This is the second post in a four part series that will provide an understanding of the mechanics and design behind pointers, stacks, heaps, escape analysis and …
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May 18, 2017
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Language Mechanics On Stacks And Pointers
Prelude This is the first post in a four part series that will provide an understanding of the mechanics and design behind pointers, stacks, heaps, escape analysis and …
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May 10, 2017
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6 min read
Design Philosophy On Logging
Prelude This post is part of a series designed to make you think about your own design philosophy on different topics. If you haven’t read the following post yet, please …
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Feb 24, 2017
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8 min read
Package Oriented Design
Updated on February 28th, 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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Feb 20, 2017
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8 min read
Design Philosophy On Packaging
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 haven’t read this post yet, please …
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Feb 7, 2017
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6 min read
Design Philosophy On Integrity
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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6 min read
Develop Your Design Philosophy
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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1 min read
Video: Design Philosophy in Go
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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6 min read
Application Focused API Design
“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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3 min read
Avoid Interface Pollution
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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10 min read
Reducing Type Hierarchies
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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6 min read
Installing Go And Your Workspace
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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6 min read
Copying Interface Values In Go
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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18 min read
Composition with Go
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 …
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Mar 15, 2015
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1 min read
Object Oriented Programming Mechanics
Go is an object oriented programming language. It may not have inheritance, but in this 20 minute video from the Bangalore meetup, I will show you how object oriented …
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Feb 23, 2015
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12 min read
Scheduler Tracing In Go
Introduction One of the things I love about Go is the profiling and debug information you can generate. There is a special environmental variable named GODEBUG that will …
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Jan 11, 2015
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10 min read
Stack Traces In Go
Introduction
Having some basic skills in debugging Go programs can save any programmer a good amount of time trying to identify problems. I believe in logging as much …
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Dec 16, 2014
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15 min read
Using Pointers In Go
Introduction
I am asked quite a bit about when and when not to use pointers in Go. The problem most people have, is that they try to make this decision based on what they …
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Nov 10, 2014
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13 min read
Error Handling In Go, Part II
Introduction
In part I of this post, we learned about the error interface and how the standard library provides support for creating error interface values via the errors …
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Oct 13, 2014
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12 min read
Error Handling In Go, Part I
Introduction
It is idiomatic in Go to use the error interface type as the return type for any error that is going to be returned from a function or method. This interface …
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Sep 1, 2014
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8 min read
Go Compiler nil Pointer Checks
Introduction
I was thinking about how the compiler looks to protect the code we write when it can. Invalid memory access checks are one type of safety check the compiler …
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Aug 30, 2014
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1 min read
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - Go Style
If you have not heard about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge I would be surprised. It’s everywhere nowadays, being done by celebrities alike. After being challenged by …
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Jun 27, 2014
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9 min read
Ice Cream Makers and Data Races Part II
Introduction
Dave Cheney published a post called Ice Cream Makers and Data Races. The post showed an example of an interesting data race that can occur when using an …
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Jun 25, 2014
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12 min read
Actionable Data With MongoDB and Go
Introduction
If you are building any kind of application for a consumer based product, it is common to have large amounts of application data being generated about your …
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Jun 20, 2014
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5 min read
Pitfalls With Closures In Go
Introduction
Closures in Go are a very powerful construct but they can also be the cause of bugs if you don’t understand how they work. In this post I am going to pull a …
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May 3, 2014
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12 min read
Methods, Interfaces and Embedded Types in Go
Introduction
My business partner Ed asked me what would happen if a struct and an embedded field both implemented the same interface. We asked ourselves two questions: …
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Apr 6, 2014
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12 min read
Introduction To Numeric Constants In Go
Introduction
One of the more unique features of Go is how the language implements constants. The rules for constants in the language specification are unique to Go. They …
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Mar 15, 2014
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5 min read
Exported/Unexported Identifiers In Go
Introduction
One of the first things I learned about in Go was using an uppercase or lowercase letter as the first letter when naming a type, variable or function. It was …
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Mar 7, 2014
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4 min read
Web Form Validation And Localization In Go
Introduction
As I improve my knowledge and framework for a Go based web service I am building, I continue to go back and enhance my Beego Sample App. Something I just …
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Feb 25, 2014
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7 min read
Running MongoDB Queries Concurrently With Go
If you are attending GopherCon 2014 or plan to watch the videos once they are released, this article will prepare you for the talk by Gustavo Niemeyer and Steve Francia. …
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Feb 17, 2014
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8 min read
The Nature Of Channels In Go
Introduction
In my last post called Concurrency, Goroutines and GOMAXPROCS, I set the stage for talking about channels. We discussed what concurrency was and how …
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Jan 29, 2014
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9 min read
Concurrency, Goroutines and GOMAXPROCS
Introduction
When new people join the Go-Miami group they always write that they want to learn more about Go’s concurrency model. Concurrency seems to be the big …
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Jan 21, 2014
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5 min read
Decode JSON Documents In Go
Introduction
We are working on a project where we have to make calls into a web service. Many of the web calls return very large documents that contain many …
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Jan 16, 2014
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2 min read
Be Selected To Attend GopherCon 2014
Gopher Academy announced a great program today.
Today I’d like to announce the GopherCon Scholarship Program. It’s goal is to increase the visibility of women …
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Jan 16, 2014
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5 min read
Go Package Management For 2014
Introduction
In October 2013 I sent out a call to action to the Go community. I wanted to form a group of Gophers that would come together and help write a specification …
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Dec 31, 2013
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6 min read
Macro View of Map Internals In Go
Introduction
There are lots of posts that talk about the internals of slices, but when it comes to maps, we are left in the dark. I was wondering why and then I found the …
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Dec 20, 2013
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6 min read
Queue Your Way To Scalability
Introduction
The first thing I did when I started programming in Go was begin porting my Windows utilities classes and service frameworks over to Linux. This is what I …
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Dec 17, 2013
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5 min read
Three-Index Slices in Go 1.2
With the release of Go 1.2, slices gained the ability to specify the capacity when performing a slicing operation. This doesn’t mean we can use this index to extend …
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Dec 11, 2013
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11 min read
Sample Web Application Using Beego and Mgo
Introduction
I am very excited about the Beego web framework. I wanted to share with you how I use the framework to build real world web sites and web services. Here is a …
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Dec 10, 2013
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7 min read
Building A Weather App Using Go
At Ardan Studios we have spent the last 6 months, in our spare time and on weekends, building a consumer based mobile application called OutCast. The mobile application …
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Nov 23, 2013
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4 min read
Write Your Go Programs Using GEdit
This is a guest post from Tad Vizbaras from Etasoft in South Florida. There are a number of editors and IDEs for Go development. LiteIde, Vim, Emacs and GEdit just to …
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Nov 21, 2013
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4 min read
Label Breaks In Go
Have you ever found yourself in this situation. You have a case statement inside of a for loop and you would like to break from both the case and for statements in a …
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Nov 5, 2013
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5 min read
Using The Log Package In Go
Linux is unique to Windows in many ways, and writing programs in Linux is no exception. The use of standard out, standard err and null devices is not only a good idea but …
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Nov 3, 2013
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8 min read
Using XSLT With Go
I am working on a project that requires pulling and processing different XML feeds from the web and storing the data into MongoDB as JSON. Since new feeds come up …
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Oct 26, 2013
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6 min read
Manage Dependencies With GODEP
Introduction If you are using 3rd party packages, (packages that you don't own or control), you will want a way to create a reproducible build every time you build your …
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Oct 17, 2013
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7 min read
My Channel Select Bug
I was testing new functionality on a program that is already running in production when suddenly the code behaved very badly. What I saw shocked me and then it became …
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Oct 10, 2013
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5 min read
Functions and Naked Returns In Go
In Go values that are returned from functions are passed by value. Go gives you some nice flexibility when it comes to returning values from a function.
Here is a simple …
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Oct 2, 2013
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7 min read
Cross Compile Your Go Programs
Introduction
In my post about building and running programs in Iron.Io, I needed to switched over to my Ubuntu VM to build linux versions of my test programs locally. I …
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Oct 1, 2013
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2 min read
Go Package Management Call To Action
Nathan Youngman, with the help of others, has produced this document outlining months of research and discovery. I would appreciate everyone to honestly read it before …
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Sep 26, 2013
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10 min read
Detecting Race Conditions With Go
I always find it interesting when I realize that something I have been practicing or dealing with for a long time has a name. This time it happens to be race conditions. …
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Sep 26, 2013
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11 min read
Recursion And Tail Calls In Go
This article was written for and published by Gopher Academy
I was looking at a code sample that showed a recursive function in Go and the writer was very quick to state …
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Sep 23, 2013
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9 min read
Iterating Over Slices In Go
Slices are used everywhere in my code. If I am working with data from MongoDB, it is stored in a slice. If I need to keep track of a collection of problems after running …
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Sep 14, 2013
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14 min read
Pool Go Routines To Process Task Oriented Work
After working in Go for some time now, I learned how to use an unbuffered channel to build a pool of goroutines. I like this implementation better than what is …
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Sep 10, 2013
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6 min read
Slices of Slices of Slices in Go
I am working on building code to load polygons for the different Marine Forecast areas in the United States. These polygons need to be stored in MongoDB and there is a …
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Sep 7, 2013
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23 min read
Running Go Programs In IronWorker
Introduction
Iron.io has a product called IronWorker which provides a task oriented Linux container that you can run your programs inside. If you are not sure what I …
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Sep 4, 2013
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9 min read
Timer Routines And Graceful Shutdowns In Go
In my Outcast data server I have several data retrieval jobs that run using different go routines. Each routine wakes up on a set interval. The most complex job is the …
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Aug 31, 2013
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7 min read
Using CGO with Pkg-Config And Custom Dynamic Library Locations
Earlier in the month I wrote a post about using C Dynamic Libraries in Go Programs. The article built a dynamic library in C and created a Go program that used it. The …
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Aug 28, 2013
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12 min read
Organizing Code to Support Go Get
For those of you who are like me, trying to learn the Mac and Linux operating systems, Golang programming and deployment constructs all at the same time, I feel your …
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Aug 26, 2013
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7 min read
Collections Of Unknown Length in Go
If you are coming to Go after using a programming language like C# or Java, the first thing you will discover is that there are no traditional collection types like List …
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Aug 20, 2013
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10 min read
Using C Dynamic Libraries In Go Programs
My son and I were having fun last weekend building a console based game in Go. I was recreating a game from my youth, back when I was programming on a Kaypro II.
I loved …
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Aug 15, 2013
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11 min read
Understanding Slices in Go Programming
Since I started programming in Go the concept and use of slices has been confusing. This is something completely new to me. They look like an array, and feel like an …
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Aug 8, 2013
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10 min read
Using Time, Timezones and Location in Go
I ran into a problem today. I was building code to consume NOAA’s tide station XML document and quickly realized I was in trouble. Here is a small piece of that XML …
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Aug 5, 2013
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15 min read
Gustavo's IEEE-754 Brain Teaser
Back in June, Gustavo Niemeyer posted the following question on his Labix.org blog:
Assume uf is an unsigned integer with 64 bits that holds the IEEE-754 representation …
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Jul 29, 2013
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2 min read
An RSS Feed Searching Framework Using Go
This article was written for and published by Safari Books Online Back in May, I finally decided that it was time to move away from the Microsoft stack to Linux. The cost …
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Jul 27, 2013
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1 min read
An Open Source Debate
This article was written for and published by Safari Books Online
If you read my article titled Analyze Data With MongoDB and Go, then you will understand the context of …
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Jul 27, 2013
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10 min read
Understanding Pointers and Memory Allocation
In the documentation provided by the Go language team you will find great information on pointers and memory allocation. Here is a link to that documentation: …
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Jul 24, 2013
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1 min read
Analyze Data With MongoDB and Go
This article was written for and published by Safari Books Online
My company is building a mobile application called Outcast. The idea behind Outcast is to give people …
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Jul 20, 2013
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1 min read
OSCON 2013 - The Gophers Are Coming
On June 22nd through the 26th, Portland Oregon is hosting OSCON (Open Source Convention). The event is run by O’Reilly. After looking at the speakers list it …
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Jul 12, 2013
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11 min read
Understanding Type in Go
When I was coding in C/C++ it was imperative to understand type. If you didn’t, you would get into a lot of trouble with both the compiler and running your code. …
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Jul 10, 2013
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7 min read
Object Oriented Programming in Go
Someone asked a question on the forum today on how to gain the benefits of inheritance without embedding. It is really important for everyone to think in terms of Go and …
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Jul 6, 2013
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7 min read
Singleton Design Pattern in Go
Multi-threaded applications are very complicated, especially when your code is not organized and consistent with how resources are accessed, managed and maintained. If …
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Jul 5, 2013
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8 min read
How Packages Work in Go
Since I started writing code in Go it has been a mystery to me how best to organize my code and use the package keyword. The package keyword is similar to using a …
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Jun 24, 2013
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13 min read
Running Go Programs as a Background Process
I have been writing Windows services in C/C++ and then in C# since 1999. Now that I am writing server based software in Go for the Linux OS I am completely lost. What is …
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Jun 17, 2013
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3 min read
Reading XML Documents in Go
I was really surprised how easy it was to read an XML document using the encoding/xml package that comes with the standard library. The package works by defining structs …
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Jun 13, 2013
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3 min read
Send an email in Go with smtp.SendMail
I wanted to send an email from my TraceLog package when a critical exception occurred. Fortunately Go’s standard library has a package called smpt which can be …
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Jun 11, 2013
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5 min read
Go's time.Duration Type Unravelled
I have been struggling with using the Time package that comes in the Go standard library. My struggles have come from two pieces of functionality. First, trying to …
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Jun 8, 2013
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14 min read
Understanding Defer, Panic and Recover
I am building my TraceLog package and it is really important that the package logs any internal exceptions and prevents panics from shutting down the application. The …
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Jun 5, 2013
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8 min read
Documenting Go Code With Godoc
As you know if you read my blog, I have been building a set of new utility packages so I can start developing an application server I need for a new project. I am brand …
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Jun 2, 2013
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3 min read
Installing Go, Gocode, GDB and LiteIDE
Check out my new installtion document:
https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2016/05/installing-go-and-your-workspace.html
I removed the sections about gocode and GDB. These are …
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May 31, 2013
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8 min read
Thread Pooling in Go Programming
After working in Go for some time now, I learned how to use an unbuffered channel to build a pool of goroutines. I like this implementation better than what is …
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May 31, 2013
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4 min read
Why Go Programming
For the past 20 years I have been writing server based and application software on the Microsoft stack. First in C/C++ leveraging the Win32 API and then in C# when .Net …