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...
How Do They Do It: Timers in Go This article covers the internal implementation of timers in Go. Note that there are a lot of links to Go repo in this article, I recommend to follow them to understand the material better.
With the advent of Let’s Encrypt, it’s now easier than ever before to ensure all of your web applications and services are behind HTTPS. However, many times it’s hard to realize the performance impact and overhead of using HTTPS on your applications.
What is PeachPy PeachPy is a Python-based framework for writing modules in assembly. It automates away some of the details and allows you to use Python to generate repetitive assembly code sequences.
How Google tackled the problem of processing enormous amounts of data, and how you can do the same with Go.
2016 has been a great year for the Go language and the Go community. We love to celebrate the end of the year with a series of blog posts from the community on a wide variety of topics.
Calling all Gophers! Many of you have asked how you can volunteer to help with GopherCon - and here’s a great opportunity! We’re doing our best to keep overhead costs down and apply the savings to an even better conference experience.