GoVirCon is back

With cases of COVID-19 continuing to rise throughout the US due to the Delta variant, we at Gopher Academy have made the bittersweet decision to bring GoVirCon back.

Extract, Transform, and Load in Go

Introduction You are about to visit Boston, and would like to taste some good food. You ask your friend who lives there what are good places to eat. They reply with “Everything is good, you can’t go wrong”. Which makes you think, maybe I should check where not t...

Using the new prebuilt builder on GoReleaser

You can now import pre-built binaries into GoReleaser! This feature was made with mainly two cases in mind: You are migrating to GoReleaser and already have the build part covered by a Makefile or some other tool, and you don’t want to change that You want to build each pl...

Instant Go

Edit and run Go code right in the browser. No backend required.

Go multi-module workspace mode, a forthcoming feature in Go 1.18

Go doesn't have a stack the way that some other languages do

Tips For Effective Go Tests

In Go, pointers (mostly) don't go with slices in practice

I18n in Go: Managing Translations

Recently I've been building a fully internationalized (i18n) and localized (l10n) web application for the first time with Go's golang.org/x/text packages. I've found that the packages and tools that live under golang.org/x/text are really effective and well designed, although it...

Signing releases with cosign and GoReleaser

In GoReleaser v0.176.0 (both OSS and Pro), we released the ability to sign Docker images - with cosign in mind, and also did small quality-of-life improvements in the artifact signing feature. In this post we’ll explore how to quickly add this to your GoReleaser config so y...