Chances are that if you have not had to deal with JSON data yet, you will. This is a collection of articles and talks that explain how to use encoding/json or one of the other JSON packages.

https://pocketgophers.com/json-references/

Release 0.9 has just been announced (here and here and here) and to me it already looks quite mature and really promising. One key feature is that pipelines can pass not only text but also other data types like lists, maps, or functions.

(Available on macOS and Linux via Homebrew/Linuxbrew: brew install --HEAD elvish. Currently, without --HEAD, brew installs v0.8.)

elvish.io

GitHub project

I'm Releasing the Golangflow source out to the wild! - Github

This site is built using the awesome web framework Buffalo created by Mark Bates. It's been amazing learning the framework coming from Rails background and having Mark help me every step of the way. Have fun and contributions are most welcome :)

What are Goroutines?

Goroutines are functions or methods that run concurrently with other functions or methods. Goroutines can be thought of as light weight threads. The cost of creating a Goroutine is tiny when compared to a thread. Hence its common for Go applications to have thousands of Goroutines running concurrently.

Read More

Since we began our transition from Scala to Go, we discovered that when there's no right tool for the job, we can make a rough one ourselves in an hour or two. If it makes sense we can iterate on it until it becomes something the whole team can use, then the whole company, and then, sometimes, the whole world.

In this blog post, I'd like to share two of these tools: sql and chart, that we've been using a lot lately. Together, they compose an interesting pattern for tinkering with multiple databases individually or concurrently within the terminal.

Read more

Go tooling in action by Francesc Campoy (JustForFunc)

For a workshop form of this video check this out: source code

https://pocketgophers.com/go-install-vs-go-build/

Most Go binaries come without any man page. On the other hand, most Go projects include a README file. So why not substituting that readme file for a man page? The tool goman does exactly this. Starting from the binary, goman figures out where the source code is, and renders the README file to the terminal - even with colors if the README is Markdown-formatted.

Read more
goman on GitHub

What should I test? What you need to test in Go is really not much different from any other programming language. Except maybe that you need to take extra care with pointers if you are not coming from that background. Generally I advocate testing on all levels. Which in practice only means that you need to care for testing not only on the top level layers (e.g. your HTTP endpoints), but also ensure that the underlying structures are also well covered.

Read More

The Go language is great for concurrency, but when you have to do work that is naturally serial, must you forgo those benefits? We faced this question while rewriting our database backup utility, mongodump, and utilized a “divide-and-multiplex” method to marry a high-throughput concurrent workload with a serial output.

Read More

https://github.com/petergtz/pegomock

PegoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. It integrates well with Go's built-in testing package, but can be used in other contexts too. It is based on golang/mock, but uses a DSL closely related to Mockito.

Lottip is proxy for MySQL RDBMS with web GUI. It will show you what's happening under the hood of your database layer. As it sits between your application and MySQL server there's no need to use tools like Wireshark or enable general logs to see which queries are being executed. It comes as single binary with zero dependencies and consists of 2 parts: proxy server and embedded GUI. https://github.com/orderbynull/lottip

https://golangbot.com/goroutines/

https://medium.com/@matthieujacquotdev/clean-architecture-in-golang-7ebafe4c70db

fakedata - a small Go program for random data generator. Lots of goodies in this release!

HyperLogLog with lots of sugar (Sparse, LogLog-Beta bias correction and TailCut space reduction).

An improved version of HyperLogLog for the count-distinct problem, approximating the number of distinct elements in a multiset using 20-50% less space than other usual HyperLogLog implementations.

aspnetcookie - A Go package that can decode and validate an ASP.net FormsAuthentication encrypted and signed cookie.

zerolog - The zerolog package provides a fast and simple logger dedicated to JSON output.

Zerolog's API is designed to provide both a great developer experience and stunning performance. Its unique chaining API allows zerolog to write JSON log events by avoiding allocations and reflection.

restic 0.7.0 has been released (including new Swift and Backblaze backends): restic 0.7.0

In this video we’ll build a Buffalo application that uses Goth to add authorization using GitHub.

This video will demostrate the following:

• Using Goth with Buffalo
• Writing Buffalo middleware
• Authentication/Authorization
• Manipulating the middleware stack

https://blog.gobuffalo.io/using-goth-with-buffalo-c2b198f540a1