Let’s say you need to write a client that talks to a third party API, like the AWS API, or the Twilio API. Go gives you a lot of tools that can help you write a really good client, but you have to know how to take advantage of them!
CloudForest is a machine learning project dedicated to the construction of Random Forests built entirely in Go. It was created by Ryan Bressler. Random Forests are a machine learning algorithm based around the construction of many single classification trees, each splitting both...
TL;DR How about arranging a GoBridge workshop for beginners as your New Year’s resolution? Teach Go to complete beginners Being a good Go programmer is definitely good.
Implementing Git’s Compression in Go Git + Go = Gitgo Gitgo is a pure Go library for core Git functions. As a ground-up implementation with no C bindings, it implements the entire structure of Git repositories from scratch.
Let's face it: Pictures taken with a smartphone usually aren't quite like Ansel Adams masterpieces. But with a little post-processing, some of them might still reveal their true beauty. A couple of Go libraries can help.
Introduction This story begins the day after I got home after giving a talk at the wonderful DevFest Siberia. Shortly after my weekly fix of Westworld, a strange nagging feeling appeared — like the one you get from unpaid bills, a postcard that you forgot to send, or a particul...
After developing Glow last year, I came to realize the two limitations of Go for distributed data processing. First, generics are needed. Of course, we can use reflection.
Go 1.8 introduces a new profile, the contended mutex profile, that allows you to capture a fraction of the stack traces of goroutines with contended mutexes. You need to set the sampling fraction by calling runtime.SetMutexProfileFraction to a value above zero to enable collectio...
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That’s not necessary anymore!
Advanced Encoding and Decoding Techniques Go’s standard library comes packed with some great encoding and decoding packages covering a wide array of encoding schemes. Everything from CSV, XML, JSON, and even gob - a Go specific encoding format - is covered, and all of these...