Object-oriented (OO) patterns get a lot of flak in the Go community, and often for good reason. Still, I’ve found that principles like SOLID, despite their OO origin, can be useful guides when thinking about design in Go. Recently, while chatting with a few colleagues new t...
#576 — October 29, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Go's Green Tea Garbage Collector — Go 1.25 introduced a new, experimental garbage collector called ‘Green Tea’. Though experimental, it’s already in production at Google a...
Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.
Everybody’s talking JSON at me, but I don’t hear a word they’re saying. Instead, I need to deserialize that data into a Rust value I can use. Luckily, there’s a crate for that.
Depending on your particular use case, choosing boring technology is often a good idea. Recently, I've been thinking more and more about how the rise and increase in power of LLMs affects this choice. By definition, boring technology has been around for a long time. Piles of cont...
#575 — October 22, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly The Draft Go 1.26 Release Notes — It’s still early days for the under-development Go 1.26, due to land in February 2026, but there’s already a draft set of release notes cov...
Along with propagating deadlines and cancellation signals, Go’s context package can also carry request-scoped values across API boundaries and processes. There are only two public API constructs associated with context values: func WithValue(parent Context, key, val any) Co...
Understanding how your data structures interact with hardware is one of the most powerful ways to improve application performance. This blogpost explores how CPU caches influence speed and how thoughtful struct design in Go can yield massive gains. Through a real-world case study...
A DNS outage is like a flash flood. It hits you and disappears as if it were never there. “It was probably the DNS” became a meme. But, half the time, we do not know the exact cause. The outage is seldom long enough to diagnose, sequester, replicate, simulate, and tes...