Bookmarks (2047)

GitHub Bringing Supply Chain Security Features to the Go Community — You can now view your dependency graph, be notified when your dependencies have vulnerabilities, and find advisories related to CVEs for Go.

Concourse: A Container-Based Continuous 'Thing-Doer' — Love the description on this one. Essentially it’s a CI/CD oriented workflow automation system and is, of course, written in Go. Pretty homepage.

Health: A Simple and Flexible Health Check Library — Provides a http.Handler that acts as a health endpoint and can be checked on the regular.

goqu: An Expressive SQL Builder and Querying Library — We first linked this over six years ago and it continues to get releases and improvements - always nice to see!

Harmonica: A Simple Spring Animation Library — This is one of those things where the visuals on the README will help you understand a lot. But if you need to simulate smooth springy motion, this is for you.

Gorse: An Open Source Recommender System — Gorse uses ML to provide a RESTful API of recommendations based on the data you feed it. It includes a dashboard and API docs.

carbon: A Simple, Semantic and Developer-Friendly Go Package for Datetime — Carbon offers a massive number of functions that make handling date and time creation, parsing, comparison, etc. much easier and more semantic.

'Packet Editing' Games in Go — Use Go (and iptables) to intercept and modify network packets from old games to, in this case, change the text in a game. Just remember, cheating is bad, m’K?

▶  How to Make Mistakes in Go — As co-host Mat Ryer explained on Twitter: “If you’re just too good at writing Go and wish you could make more mistakes, this episode is for you.” Teiva Harsanyi, author of 100 Go Mistakes, joins the Go Time crew to really explain how to avoid mistakes ;-)

📖  The Ultimate Go Notebook — William Kennedy, Go trainer extraordinaire, and Hoanh An have teamed up to write a Go book based on everything covered in Bill’s popular Go training classes. It costs (a little) money, but if you need convincing, here’s Bill being very excited about it.

Let's Do Some Data Science in Go: How Much To Tip? — So how much (as a percentage) should you tip your taxi driver? Miki attempts to answer this question by crunching some numbers with Go to see what other people are doing.

How to Build a Go CRUD HTTP API with Ent — Ent is an entity framework for go – essentially an ORM for modeling database schemas with Go objects. It now has a new extension called elk that can generate full RESTful API endpoints from such schemas.

Understanding and Preventing Common Security Vulnerabilities — Join Buildkite on a tour of some of the most common security problems companies face, and how you can prevent them.

GoLand 2021.2 Released — The second major release of the year for the commercial Go IDE which we feature mostly because in every community survey we see it’s rather popular :-) 2021.2 boasts improvements to Go module management, the ability to use gofmt as well as GoLand’s own formatter, and improved Go 1.17 support.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Testza: Full-Featured Test Framework for Go — Testza includes assertions, mocking, input testing, output capturing, along with some very nice, colorized output.

uuid 1.3.0: Package for UUIDs based on RFC 4122 and DCE 1.1 — 1.3.0 adds an optional ‘randomness pool’ mode for random v4 UUID generation which can increase throughput at the cost of security in certain situations.

Minimock: A Tool to Generate Mocks from Interface Declarations — Generates statically typed mocks and helpers and is fully integrated with the testing package.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There Is No 'Extreme' Fast Way to Merge Slices in Go — When you make a new slice, all elements are reset to zero to avoid “unspecified behaviors”, but it comes at a cost.

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.

▶  Discussing SIV and the 'V2+ Issue' with Peter Bourgon and Tim Heckman — A technical discussion about some changes introduced by the move to modules.

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(!)

Creating the Golfcart Programming Language — How a developer approached implementing his own toy programming language with Go.

Extend Your Go App with Embedded WebAssembly Functions in WasmEdge — WasmEdge is a CNCF hosted library, which is nice, but you may find the process to use it a bit, um, rusty.

Balerter: Script Based Alert Manager — Define sources and channels in YAML, write scripts in Lua. Alerts can be just about anything: Slack, Telegram, etc.

certmagic: Automatic HTTPS for Any Go Program — Fully-managed TLS certificate issuance and renewal, as used by Caddy, thanks to Let’s Encrypt (by default, but it can support other ACME-compliant issuers).

Several Handy Commands to Run in Go Projects — A few very cool commands you will probably want to use on your current projects. For example, find packages without tests or build a dependency graph.

Russ Cox on Hardware Memory Models — When Russ starts a new series of blog posts, we listen (it was his series on package versioning that largely spurred the Go modules project). Today’s topic is somewhat more technical but is spurred by a desire to discuss changes to Go’s memory model.

Go Training Class Material — This now-5-year-old list has been continuously maintained and has to be one of the premier collections of books, blogs, interviews, etc. for anyone wanting to learn more about Go.

Benchmarks in Go Can Be 'Surprising' — Can the exact same code create vastly different benchmark numbers from the same codebase on the same machine? Yes, but this isn’t just a Go phenomenon.

▶  Discussing Fuzzing in the Standard Library — We’ve mentioned Go’s forthcoming fuzzing feature quite a bit already, but Google’s Katie Hockman and Jay Conrad joined the Go Time team to dig into the details and why and where you’d use it.

Bluemonday: A Fast Go HTML Sanitizer — Takes untrusted user generated content as an input and returns HTML sanitized against an allowlist of approved elements and attributes.