I recently realized that the stdlib errors package in Go supports joining
multiple errors in addition to the more common %w wrapping.

In the previous post I showed how to do high frequency metrics in PHP with TCP sockets. In this post I'll show how to collect and combine metrics from multiple PHP application servers. Instead of sending the log lines from each server to a single node, the…

Golang reflection is wonderfully horrible. Let's reflect on it.

Go, the greatest teaching language?

Go’s sync.Map isn’t a magic bullet for all concurrent map needs. It’s got some good tricks up its sleeve, like handling reads without locking, but it’s not always the best choice. This article dives into how sync.Map works under the hood, from its two-map…

The Go Windows port added support for high-resolution timers in Go 1.23, boosting the resolution of time.Sleep from ~15.6ms to ~0.5ms.

Besides retries, circuit breakers are probably one of the most commonly employed
resilience patterns in distributed systems. While writing a retry routine is pretty simple,
implementing a circuit breaker needs a little bit of work.
I realized that I usually…

The go:embed feature simplifies the inclusion of static assets in your Go applications. By embedding files and directories at compile time, you can create more portable and self-contained binaries.

In the previous post, I looked into running transactions in a layered architecture. Now, let’s consider transactions that need to span more than one service.
If you work with microservices, a time may come when you need a transaction running across them.…

Happy 15th birthday, Go!

I'm starting this discussion to collect early feedback on a draft design for a kind of region-based memory management in Go. There is no prototype yet, only a design and a preliminary evaluatio...

wasmVision gets you going with computer vision using WebAssembly. - wasmvision/wasmvision

Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.

Go’s runtime package provides two intriguing features: Finalizers and KeepAlive, which help manage object lifecycle in unique ways. Finalizers let you attach cleanup functions to objects that run when they’re garbage collected. Meanwhile, KeepAlive serves…

I was reading the language server protocol docs and about json-rpc for collaborating on a new project which will need an LSP server. Since it was getting a little boring to just read so much of documentations and RFCs, I thought of making a small and fun…

Security testing starts with understanding vulnerabilities. The CVE website lists known software flaws. The OWASP Top Ten highlights common weaknesses. With this knowledge, we can improve our Go development. This article shows how to put in place robust practices.…

The internet, in many ways, has a memory. From archived versions of old websites to search engine caches, there’s often a way to dig into…