Go 1.16 will make system calls through libc on OpenBSD

Illustrating the importance of fully multi-core program building today

Coming in Go 1.16: ReadDir and DirEntry

A look at the new os.ReadDir function and os.DirEntry interface coming in Go 1.16, with a comparison to os.scandir in Python.

Making tracking upstream Git repositories a bit quieter

Microservices test architecture. Can you sleep well without end-to-end tests?

Do you know the rare feeling when you develop a new application from scratch and can cover all lines with proper tests? I said “rare” because most of the time, you will work with software with a long history, multiple contributors, and not so obvious testing approach....

Scheduling Function Calls with Zero Allocation

Author(s): Changkun Ou Permalink: https://golang.design/research/zero-alloc-call-sched GUI programming in Go is a little bit tricky. The infamous issue regarding interacting with legacy, GUI frameworks is that most graphics related APIs must be called from the main thread. The i...

Debug AWS Lambda Functions with Gebug

What you can and can't build in Go's module mode

Writing Simulations Using Go

Introduction If you can write a for-loop, you can do statistics. - Jake Vanderplas A lot of developers shy away from problems which involve statistics or probability. Which is shameful since in today’s data-rich environment, you can gain a lot of insights from data. In this...

GoReleaser: 4 years releasing software

Last year, I made a blog post about GoReleaser turning 3 years old. I kind of like it, so this year I’m writing one about it turning 4. Maybe I’ll make this a habit, so I can quickly see how it improved over the course of a year. The year of the linux on the desktop I...