Futures in Go, no package required
Futures are mechanisms for decoupling a value from how it was computed. Goroutines and channels allow implementing futures trivially. Does this approach cover all aspects of a future?
You should not build your own authentication
Welcome to the third and last article covering how to build “Too Modern Go application”. But don’t worry. This doesn’t mean we’re done showing you how to build applications that are easy to develop, maintain, and fun to work with in the long term. It...
ZZT in Go (using a Pascal-to-Go converter)
Describes my port of Adrian Siekierka's "Reconstruction of ZZT" to Go, done in a semi-automated way using a Pascal-to-Go converter.
Testing in Go: philosophy and tools
Describes the minimalist philosophy of testing in Go and the built-in testing tools (LWN.net).
Robust gRPC communication on Google Cloud Run (but not only!)
Welcome to the third article in the series on building business-oriented applications in Go! In this series, we show you how to build applications that are easy to develop, maintain, and fun to work with in the long term. In this article, I describe how to build robust internal c...
Diamond interface composition in Go 1.14
Per the overlapping interfaces proposal, Go 1.14 now permits embedding of interfaces with overlapping method sets. This is a brief post explain what this change means: Let’s start with the definition of the three key interfaces from the io package; io.Reader, io.Writer, an...
The state of the AWK
Surveys the AWK landscape, looks at new features in GNU Awk, and discusses why AWK is still relevant in 2020 (LWN.net).
Spanner's high availability writes
Spanner is a relational database with 99.999% availability which is roughly 5 mins a year. Spanner is a distributed system and can span multiple machines, multiple datacenters (and even geographical regions when configured). It splits the records automatically among its replicas...
A complete Terraform setup of a serverless application on Google Cloud Run and Firebase
In the previous post, Robert introduced Wild Workouts, our example serverless application. Every week or two, we release new articles about this project, focusing on creating business-oriented applications in Go. In this post, I continue where Robert left off and describe the inf...
Fatih’s question
A few days ago Fatih posted this question on twitter. I’m going to attempt to give my answer, however to do that I need to apply some simplifications as my previous attempts to answer it involved a lot of phrases like a pointer to a pointer, and other unhelpful waffling. Hopefu...