A Go HTTP client library for creating and sending API requests - dghubble/sling

What is instrumentation? What kinds of instrumentation are available for Go
programs and when should you use them? What is dynamic instrumentation?

My favorite new API in Go 1.13 is testing.B.ReportMetric. It allows you to report custom metrics from within your benchmarks.
When the API was proposed, the motivating example was package sort. The package sort benchmarks, like all benchmarks, measure elapsed…

Lessons learned building Concourse workers for ARM - a visit to CGO cross compilation, and necessary modifications to the workers' runtime

In a previous blogpost I wrote how to create a Webserver in Go with graceful shutdown. This time I want to show you a more improved version which you can utilize better in your projects as it can be used as a drop in server.go file in your project where I…

Go is definitely not the first language on my mind, when I hear the term “Functional Programming”. Yet, functions are first-class citizens in Go, and one can achieve a lot using higher-order functions (those that can receive and/or return other functions)…

Coming from Ruby, which has excellent testing tools and libraries, the notion of table-driven tests was unusual for me. The widespread testing libraries in Ruby, such as RSpec, force the programmer to approach testing from a BDD standpoint. Thus, coming to…

This post describes how we can use the existing native data structures to implement sets (and hash-sets) in Go applications.

Write for others, not just for yourself: learn these three tips for writing code that other developers can read.

How to use text messages to automate a customer feedback process using Go and Slack. This is a quick guide with easy to understand code examples.

In the last post, we have seen that our sample controller uses Listers to retrieve the current state of Kubernetes resources. In this post, we will take a closer look at how these Listers work. Ess…

Dev's offline page is fun and we did implement it with Rust and WebAssembly. Go is simple. Can we d...

Every byte counts - Optimize them Budgets are critical to the performance. It is very imp...

Six months distilled

A list of great tools for Go software engineers that makes developing microservices easier. Especially useful for performance critical gRPC applications.

What's going on with Glide in a Go Modules world