5 Gotchas of Defer in Go (Golang) — Part I

Repeatable and Isolated Development Environments for Go

One of the common criticisms of the GOPATH is that it is hard to create isolated development environments without resorting to hacks, bash scripts, multiple GOPATH settings, or other trickery.

Managing Dependencies, Forks, and Code Patches with Dep

A few months ago, we switched over to using dep to manage dependencies for Veneur. We were excited to discover that dep provided a straightforward workflow for a longstanding problem in Go development: managing forks of dependencies and contributions to upstream projects.

A Tale of Two `rand`s

I had always been a bit confused as to how the crypto/rand package and the math/rand package were related, or how they were expected to work (together).

Creating Your Own Bot Experience with go-sarah

Chat tools have been good friends of developers. On chat tools we share our thoughts, problems, solutions, jokes, and pretty much everything we do as software engineers.

Processing spreadsheet data in Go

Your managers, all through the hierarchy, love circulating spreadsheets via email. (They simply don't know better.) How to extract and analyze the relevant data from the daily mess? Go can help.

Minimal Perfect Hash Functions

A regular hash function turns a key (a string or a number) into an integer. Most people will know them as either the cryptographic hash functions (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, etc) or their smaller non-cryptographic counterparts frequently encountered in hash tables (the map keyword in Go)...

Automating Go development with Make

Make is an old tool that you can use today to help get everyone on your team on the same page, and make it easy for new contributors to your project to get started.

Using GopherJS with gRPC-Web

Introduction This article will talk about how to connect a GopherJS frontend to a Go backend. If you haven’t heard about GopherJS before, it’s an open source Go-to-JavaScript transpiler, allowing us to write Go code and run it in the browser.

Create a bot with NLU in Python

At Wizeline we have Python courses, and recent topic was how to build a Bot in Python.