"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck"


Go interfaces are satisfied by any type which has the same set of methods. This means that if a function requires an interface which implements the Quack() and Walk() methods, any typ...

Cutting down on the size of a Wasm binary has advantages for performance and transfer speed. This post covers some tricks for reducing the size of Go code projects when compiled to WebAssembly with TinyGo

Learn about testscript, the hidden gem the Go team kept locked away as an internal package. Now available for everyone to use.

Practical concurrency guide in Go, communication by channels, patterns - luk4z7/go-concurrency-guide

Another entry in the maintenance series! Throughout the series we’ve discussed building versus buying, building actually maintainable software, maintaining ourselves, open source maintenance, legacy code, and most recently Go project structure. In this 7th…

In this article, we are going to be taking a look at how we can actively recover from panics within our Go applications.

When an image is pixelated, it has a visual effect applied to reduce its level of detail through the use of many same-sized blocks, each painted with a single

safe and easy casting from one type to another in Go - GitHub - spf13/cast: safe and easy casting from one type to another in Go

Lightweight, fast and reliable key/value storage engine based on Bitcask. - rosedblabs/rosedb

Keyless Git signing using Sigstore. Contribute to sigstore/gitsign development by creating an account on GitHub.

I try to explain why the problem of calculating the exact contents of a type set in Go is harder than it might seem on the surface.

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Let’s say we have a RESTful API for a general ledger, with the endpoints, that return a paginated collection of resources:
GET /accounts, retrieves a list of accounts, filtered and sorted by some query parameters; GET /accounts/:uuid/transactions, retrieves…

In this post, I will give an overview about how to write event-driven distributed systems in Go, with gRPC, NATS JetStream and CockroachDB…

Roaring bitmaps in Go (golang), used by InfluxDB, Bleve, DataDog - RoaringBitmap/roaring