Developers often tend to think about designing software in terms of using logical layers of abstractions. I have seen many Go projects with layers of abstractions that reflect grouping of all common things together such as types (model), handlers for all services (api or controll...
Go 1.8 is going to feature support for HTTP/2 server push. HTTP/2 has many features designed to make the Web faster. One of those features is the server push, the ability to send resources before the client asks for it. This feature enables websites to push assets like JavaScript...
Year’s end is coming closer. Time to clean up repositories and polishing up the toolset. All the well-known tools have been installed already–is there anything else to add to the toolbox?
database/sql has many new features to better enable writing and controlling queries. In short it adds support for: Cancelable queries Returning the SQL database types Returning multiple result sets Ping hitting the database server Named parameters Transaction isolation levels C...
In Go, for a long time, we didn’t have a convention to label the deprecated APIs. In the past years, there is new convention emerged to add deprecation notices to the docs. Today, standard library uses this specific format. As an example, Go 1.8 deprecates sql/driver.Execer...
Contributing to the Go project can seem overwhelming, especially at first. The official Contribution Guidelines document is rather lengthy, but after working through the initial Google CLA and Gerrit authentication process, it becomes much easier to contribute to the project.
Two of my favorite things to do are write Go code and make BBQ. This fall, I started a project that combined these passions into an interesting project.
Quick Intro to NATS, and Why We Love Go! For those of you who have been reading GopherAcademy for a while, you may already be familiar with NATS via last year’s post, or you may have known about NATS for a while before that - NATS was one of the earliest production applications...
One of the shiny new toys in Go 1.7 is the ‘context’ library. Not shiny as in it is genuinely new. It started out at golang.
This is a talk that I gave at the Vancouver Meetup on November 29th, 2016. The talk covers topics around developing your own design philosophy with a focus on decoupling from change. These are things I cover extensively in the Ultimate Go Classes. Here is the material that is cov...