Constants can be confusing and easy to misuse in Go if you are coming from an untyped language. In this article we will learn what constants are, and when it is best to make use of them. Most of the points I make here apply to general-purpose programming…

Oftentimes, developers misapply Go’s features for error handling. Consider the best practices for handling errors in a Go application.

A common use-case for build-time variables is to inject the Git version information in the binary. There are several approaches on how to do this, but this one is the one I found the most useful one.
Let’s start with creating a sample project using Go modules:…

How do you check if two Time objects in Go refer to the same point in time?

I’ve always enjoyed solving puzzles, and love coding puzzles. This post walks through how I have set up my Advent of Code project using Go Plugins for different days’ solutions. No …

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In previous post we talked about how to create <i>"Ultimate"</i> setup for your <i>Golang</i> project, now it's time to apply it to something real - R...

For the most part, Go developers are pretty good about using constants for global configuration, rather than global variables. A problem arises however when we

switch is an alternative conditional statement useful for communicating actions taken by your Go programs when presented with different options. Everything w…

MVC is a well-known way to structure web applications, but it is often shunned in Go. In this article we explore how MVC can be effectively implement in Go as well as how to avoid all of the issues that many people associate with MVC.

At a high level, a function option is a closure over some value that needs to be set on some other entity. By using some helper method, you can set a defined, yet flexible, set of values on an entity type.

In this article, we discuss how to create a Command Line Interface in Go in just a few minutes with the help of Cobra, a robust tool for creating CLI tools.

Docker is awesome! It is lightweight, makes sure you have the exact same environment as your teammates and servers and its easy to set up.

a durable, embeddable, worker queue for golang One thing that has always stuck out to me about the Go programming language is it’s incredibly strong concurrency model. Go is aggressively simple as a language, and it’s asynchronous architecture is no different.…

go-james v1.0.0 github.com/pieterclaerhout/go-james
 
James is your butler and helps you to create, build, debug, test and run your Go projects.
When you often create new apps using Go, it quickly becomes annoying when you realize all the steps it takes…

A comprehensive & lengthy tutorial on Packages in Go with illustrations, examples and in depth explanations.

Packages in Go are a very powerful feature, which just works naturally and perfectly and most of the times is underrated. If you are new to Go or…

A CLI to turn Go's benchmark output into pictures. Contribute to cep21/benchdraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fuzzing is a testing technique that loads our program with random data. It is complementary to the usual testing and allows developers to…

Panics are unforeseeable errors that will spontaneously terminate and exit a running Go program. Common mistakes are often responsible for creating panics. I…