Bookmarks (2032)

askgit: Query Git Repositories with SQL — A CLI tool for running SQL queries on git repos such as for making reports.

Go Related Findings in JetBrains' Developer Ecosystem Survey — I’ve enjoyed looking through the extremely plentiful results from JetBrains’ The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021 survey and Go gets an entire page of its own. Gin is the big winner in the Web framework stakes, Mux in routing and, elsewhere, Go is the most likely language for all survey respondents to consider migrating to...

Deploying a gRPC and gRPC Web API on Google Cloud Run — Leans on Cloud Run’s experimental HTTP/2 support and implements the backend in Go.

Wrapping Commands in Go — “Commands” here are shell commands and the example shows how to run and parse the output of a command.

On Building Business Apps in Go — An interview with Miłosz Smółka, one of the co-founders of Three Dots Labs and co-author of the book Go With the Domain about the realities of building business software using Go.

httpstat: Visualize HTTP Connection Statistics — A self described ‘shameless rip off’ (or port) of a Python tool with the same name.

Go Now the 4th Most Popular Language on GitHub — A fun data visualization on Reddit’s /r/DataIsBeautiful sub shows the popularity of different languages in public GitHub repos. JavaScript comes first, with Python, Java, and then Go just behind.

Accessing Postgres Databases in Go — No ORMs here, it’s a review of low-level ways to access Postgres databases from Go, including the pq driver, pgx and sqlx.

An Interesting Go Memory Issue? — Found while running a test, a program that should never hit the OS memory limit did just that and Ben has theories as to why.

How Does sync.Map Work Internally? — A very long and detailed look at the how and why of using sync.Map along with some ways you might optimize its performance.

Playing Mental Poker in Go — Is it possible for two potentially dishonest players to play a fair game of poker without cards at arm’s length? Apparently the answer is yes and the author set out to recreate such a system in Go.

LiveKit: A Go Powered Server for Real Time Audio and Video — An open source infrastructure project for building and scaling realtime WebRTC powered audio and video experiences in apps. It’s new but there are already SDKs for iOS, JS, React, and Android. The Go server code.

Run Faster and Safer Than Linux with Open Source Unikernels — Run open source Go unikernels. No devops, no frameworks, no cloud lock-in. Easier than K8S. Run 2X as fast on Google. Run 3X as fast on AWS and deploy in 10s of seconds.

Updating the Go Memory Model — The final post in a three-part series that culminates with the outline of a proposal to change Go’s memory model. This post is very technical but the specific changes are clear and accessible. If this proposal is anything like Russ’s previous efforts, be prepared to see changes in Go before long(!)

How Hot Does It Get Inside a Car During a Heat Wave? — The author measured just how hot it got in his car during a recent heatwave. A nice post, with Go making an appearance in parsing the eventual data. The answer, by the way, is ridiculously hot.

Ergo: Erlang/OTP Ideas, But in Go — If you’ve ever been intrigued by the Erlang ecosystem but weren’t ready to give it a go, Ergo brings some of the Erlang world’s ideas to Go.

Go 1.17 Release Candidate 1 Released — The Go team took a break but now they’re back and they want you to run your production load tests on the latest version to help them perfect the final release. As is usual, you can learn more about the actual changes and features in the draft release notes.