Dummy load balancer in a single Go script
Build a working round-robin load balancer in Go with goroutines and the standard library. No dependencies needed for this educational prototype.
Go 1.22's (likely) new <code>reflect.TypeFor()</code> generic function
'There will not be a Go 2 that breaks Go 1 programs.'
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Perfectly Reproducible, Verified Go Toolchains
Go 1.21 is the first perfectly reproducible Go toolchain.
Slices Package: Compare
Series Here are all the posts in this series about the slices package. Binary Search Clip, Clone, and Compact Compare Contains, Delete, and Equal Introduction In the last post of this series I discussed the Clip, Clone, and Compact APIs from the slices package. In this post, I...
My favorite prime number generator
Many years ago I've re-posted a Stack Overflow answer with Python code for a terse prime sieve function that generates a potentially infinite sequence of prime numbers ("potentially" because it will run out of memory eventually). Since then, I've used this code many tim...
Limit goroutines with buffered channels
I was cobbling together a long-running Go script to send webhook messages to a system when some events occur. The initial script would continuously poll a Kafka topic for events and spawn new goroutines to make HTTP requests to the destination. This had two problems: It could cr...
Limit goroutines with buffered channels
I was cobbling together a long-running Go script to send webhook messages to a system when some events occur. The initial script would continuously poll a Kafka topic for events and spawn new goroutines to make HTTP requests to the destination. This had two problems: It could cr...
Limit goroutines with buffered channels
I was cobbling together a long-running Go script to send webhook messages to a system when some events occur. The initial script would continuously poll a Kafka topic for events and spawn worker goroutines in a fire-and-forget manner to make HTTP requests to the destination. This...
Limit goroutines with buffered channels
Control goroutine concurrency with buffered channels as semaphores. Prevent resource exhaustion with backpressure patterns in Go workers.