The sync.Once is probably the easiest sync primitive to use, but there’s more under the hood than you might think. It’s also a good opportunity to understand how it works by juggling both atomic operations and mutexes.

Occurrence of Hyrum's law in Golang

In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who…

Subtle database errors and how we recovered

HTML components in pure Go, that render to HTML 5.

In this episode we create a GitHub OAuth application in Go that lets users authenticate with GitHub and calls GitHub API on their behalf.

Code: https://github.com/plutov/packagemain/tree/master/28-github-api
GitHub API Go Client: https://github.com/google/go…

GOMAXPROCS value under a container is not what you think it is

Make a small program that generates wrapping functions for the given type methods, and use this example as a good starting point for your own Go code generator!

Go’s built-in micro-benchmarking framework is extremely useful and widely known. Sill, not many developers are aware of the additional, yet essential, benchstat tool allowing clear comparisons of Go A/B benchmark results across multiple runs. In 2023, benchstat…

Recently, I struggled for a couple of hours to understand why the API tests of one project were slow. In theory, we designed tests to run in a fully parallel way – the duration of tests should be close to the longest-running test. Unfortunately, the reality…

The internal folder in Go is one of the few "magic" features in the Go language where if you use it, you get a bunch of benefit without having to do too much.

One of my favorite things about Go is its distribution process using the go install command. With go install, I don’t have to deal with the trouble of setting up brew, npm, pip, or any other package manager separately like I had to with some languages. It…

Learn how to deploy a Gin app to Railway with this step-by-step guide. It covers quick setup, one-click deploys, Dockerfile and other deployment strategies.

A curated list of awesome #Golang frameworks, libraries and software

Learn how to write benchmarks and measure execution time and memory allactions of your code.

Welcome to Episode 5 of Bill's Guide to A.I.! In this episode, Bill takes the next step by demonstrating how to interact with a local LLM (Large Language Model) using OLAMA and LangChain Go. With MongoDB vector embeddings already in place from the previous…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Valhalla