Issue 320 - How to keep your modules compatible long-term (23)

gitqlite: Query Git Repositories with SQL — This is useful if you want to track and display git metrics for your team.

Go's History in Code — Much of Go’s syntax and features have their origins in languages that came before, such as Newsqueak, Alef, Plan9 C, Limbo. This post runs through examples in each language as a reference.

gomacro: An Interactive Go Interpreter and Debugger — Can be used as a typical REPL or as a debugger, alternatively it can bring an Eval() function and scripting capabilities to existing Go code, or even be used to experiment with generics and Lisp-like macros.

Goka 1.0: A Distributed Stream Processing Library for Apache Kafka — Last week we linked to Trubka, a Go powered CLI tool for managing Kafka – this week Kafka is back and this library will let you build scalable services on top of it instead.

Bleve: Full-Text Search and Indexing for Go — Index any go data structure (including JSON) and query in multiple ways. You can test it out live on Bleve’s own project site.

GhostDB: A Distributed, In-Memory, General Purpose Key-Value Data Store — It’s early days for this university project-turned-database and it has some similarities to Redis, but it’s written in Go which is neat, naturally.

Keeping Your Modules Compatible — The latest in a series on Go modules (on the official Go blog) that dives into designing for compatibility - so you can help future developers (including you) use a module with confidence that a new version won’t break compilation.

copyist: Mocking Your SQL Database in Go Tests Has Never Been Easier — Uses a record-playback approach to mocking database calls so that they’ll run a lot faster without needing a database connection.

Monitor Golang Application Uptime & Trace App Requests in Real Time — Trace requests across service boundaries and identify latency and other potential errors with end-to-end application tracing. Then, correlate with related metrics and logs for fast troubleshooting. Track Golang app performance end-to-end with Datadog APM.

Gopherize.me: Create a Unique Go Gopher of Your Own — We linked to this back three years ago, but it’s still pretty neat and may well be for you if you need a new avatar or a graphic for a blog post, etc.

Building Versatile Microservices in Go — A ten-post series on creating microservices using gRPC and protocol buffers that covers authentication with JWT, Docker Compose, event brokering, and more. First published in 2017, it’s been updated for 2020 and Go 1.13+.

How I Structure Go Packages — Some tips (presented in a neat slide-deck style arrangement) that will give your packages, both in-app and standalone, better names, less dependencies, and longer lives.

Build Maintainable APIs with Goa — A from-scratch tutorial that shows how Goa designs, documents, and enhances (think plugins) your API as it evolves.

Profiling a Go HTTP Service with pprof and expvar — A very simple way to add a “debug” server to a production app for those times when you need it.

▶  Building Go Services with a DDD Approach — A 20-minute talk from GopherCon Israel earlier this year on using Domain Driven Design to build microservices in Go.

Why Go’s Error Handling is Awesome — Things like this are always partly a matter of taste, but Go’s direct and explicit nature in error management has a lot going for it.

A Go Lesson Learned: Sometimes I Don't Want to Use Goroutines If Possible — Another example of goroutines seeming like the right answer, but being proven wrong by execution.

Get Instant Debug Data with eBPF — Pixie saves you time. You can get metrics, events, traces, and logs without changing code, manual UIs or trucking data off-cluster. We’ll launch this fall and our community beta is out for you to tinker.

Sr. Software Engineer at CrowdStrike (Remote) — CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, which helps protect our customers from cybersecurity attacks.

Are You a Go Developer? Stream Has a Job for You — Stream is looking for a talented Go developer with a passion for building scalable infrastructure. Apply now.

SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server Built in Go — Supports password and public key auth, is database driven, includes a REST API for user and quota management, and more.

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