#556 — June 4, 2025 Unsub | Web Version 🖊️ I was meant to be travelling this week. My plans changed, but I’d already planned for a shorter issue, so it’s a quicker one this time. Back to full service next week!__Peter Cooper, your editor...
Go team plans around error handling support
Quick takeaways Start with synchronous architecture by default - it’s simpler to understand, debug, and maintain for most use cases Async architecture improves scalability and resilience - message queues and events help handle traffic spikes and failures Design matters mor...
#555 — May 28, 2025 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly ▶ What's New in Go: Google's Take — Released as part of last week’s Google I/O, Go’s project lead and lead devrel team up to present an extensive list of recent additi...
When working with Go in an industrial context, I feel like dependency injection (DI) often gets a bad rep because of DI frameworks. But DI as a technique is quite useful. It just tends to get explained with too many OO jargons and triggers PTSD among those who came to Go to escap...
This is a post about multiplying polynomials, convolution sums and the connection between them. Multiplying polynomials Suppose we want to multiply one polynomial by another: \[(3x^3+x^2+2x+1)\cdot(2x^2+6)\] This is basic middle-school math - we start by cross-multiplying: \[6x^...
Prompted by some discussions I've had recently around documenting Cobra CLIs, I realised that in November 2023 I wrote a library, cobra-doc-template and somehow I ended up not writing a blog post about it (how?? 😅) - so here it is! Inbuilt to Cobra is functionality to generate...
Go's cryptography libraries underwent an audit by Trail of Bits.
Introduction In part 1 we took a higher level view on serialization in general and JSON in specific. In part 2 we looked at emitting JSON. In part 3, we’ll look at an issue you might encounter when consuming JSON, Zero vs NULL field values. To clarify the definition of NULL...