Dips and wiggles: Prometheus, Grafana, and Checkly
Here’s how to connect your Checkly metrics to Prometheus and Grafana and turn them into useful dashboards.
The current state of cryptography in Go
#580 — November 26, 2025 Read the Web Version 📅 This is a rather early note, but Go Weekly will be moving to Fridays in January 2026, as part of a schedule reshuffle for most of our newsletters.__Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly...
Notes on the WASM Basic C ABI
The WebAssembly/tool-conventions repository contains "Conventions supporting interoperability between tools working with WebAssembly". Of special interest, in contains the Basic C ABI - an ABI for representing C programs in WASM. This ABI is followed by compilers like C...
There's always going to be a way to not code error handling
“Wakeups”: the most important DevOps metric
“How many times were your people woken up by faults in production?” JAX DevOps talks to John about metrics, security, testing, and automation.
Signing Git commits and tags with SSH
You can sign Git commits and tags with SSH keys instead of GPG.
Sixteen great years of Go
#579 — November 19, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly 🎂 Go Turns Sixteen Years Old — Go was open sourced sixteen years ago, and there’s much to be excited about in both the recent past and the near future. Austin gives a min...
Pinning GitHub Actions
If you’re using GitHub Actions in your projects, you should be pinning your actions to specific commit SHAs instead of using tags or branches.
Re-exec testing Go subprocesses
When testing Go code that spawns subprocesses, you usually have three options. Run the real command. It invokes the actual binary that creates the subprocess and asserts against the output. However, that makes tests slow and tied to the environment. You have to make sure the same...
“Frowning at a screen for 200 hours”: on the writing process
John Arundel on his first steps as an author: “If just one person is helped and inspired by this book... then I’m not giving refunds to the others.”