Fearless Concurrency Ep.7: Lock-Free Structures and Channels for Scalable Rust Code

Introduction: Welcome to Episode 7 of the Fearless Concurrency in Rust series! In this final episode, we explore advanced concurrency techniques that enable efficient, scalable, and robust multithreaded applications in Rust. The focus is on leveraging tools like lock-free data st...

Go 1.23.4-1 and 1.22.10-1 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.23.4-1 and 1.22.10-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Go 1.23.3-2 and 1.22.9-2 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.23.3-2 and 1.22.9-2 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value

Why Go slices throw up surprises

#​534 — December 3, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly The Draft Go 1.24 Release Notes — Last week, we enjoyed Daniel Martí’s slidedeck on what’s coming in Go 1.24 early in 2025 – we’ve now noticed the draft release no...

Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go

Gotcha: `PersistentPostRunE` only runs on successful commands in Cobra

In my recent post Lessons learned adding OpenTelemetry to a (Cobra) command-line Go tool, I wrote about how you can wire in OpenTelemetry to a command-line tool built with Cobra. In it, I noted that to do so, you can use the PersistentPreRunE and PersistentPostRunE. However, this...

Side Projects Reverie

A short reflection on side projects, and how I do them.

What's coming in Go 1.24

#​533 — November 26, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly GoMLX: ML in Go without Python — Eli recently wrote about Go’s suitability as a glue language for calling out to third party machine learning services and Python ‘side...

Scalable JSON Streaming with HTTP and Go - Ep.5

Introduction: Welcome to the final episode of the JSON for Engineers series! In this concluding session, we tackle the challenges of working with large JSON datasets, exploring efficient strategies for streaming data while minimizing memory usage. These techniques enable develope...