Writing a circuit breaker in Go

Build a production-ready circuit breaker in Go from scratch with closed, open, and half-open states to prevent cascading failures.

packagemain.tech - Progress, Stats, and Future Plans

On May 30th, 2024, me and my friend/colleague Julien posted our first article on packagemain.tech which is a Substack newsletter where we want to share real world experiences and knowledge about Backend Development, Go, DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes, Databases and more. We’ve b...

Go's new small language features from 1.22 and 1.23 are nice

Data Integrity with JSON Serialization - Ep.1

Introduction: Welcome to Episode 1 of JSON for Engineers! In this first episode, Miki Tebeka dives into the fundamentals of serialization, with a special focus on JSON, one of the most widely-used data formats in software engineering. Miki draws from his extensive development exp...

Map with Expiration in Go

In some cases your application doesn’t need Redis, and internal in-memory map with locks and expiration will suffice. For example you already know the size of the map and you don’t need to store a lot of data. Use cases could be IP rate limiting, or any other short-li...

Go 1.23.2-1 and 1.22.8-1 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.23.2-1 and 1.22.8-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Distributed Transactions in Go: Read Before You Try

In the previous post, I looked into running transactions in a layered architecture. Now, let’s consider transactions that need to span more than one service. If you work with microservices, a time may come when you need a transaction running across them. Especially if the w...

High-Resolution Timers on Windows

The Go Windows port added support for high-resolution timers in Go 1.23, boosting the resolution of time.Sleep from ~15.6ms to ~0.5ms. The post High-Resolution Timers on Windows appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

A compile-time function evaluation experiment

#​525 — October 1, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Prep: Compile-Time Function Evaluation for Go — “By using prep.Comptime, you can evaluate functions at build time, replacing them with their computed results. Just like co...

Using a separate Go module for your `tools.go`

In Managing your Go tool versions with go.mod and a tools.go, I mentioned how you can use a tools.go to track any dependencies your project needs for i.e. linting or go generates. This is a very useful pattern and until the proposal to add a // tool directive in go.mod lands, is...