~golangweekly | Issue 526 - Microsoft goes Go for SQL Server's CLI (14)

Reflecting on Go Reflection — Truly a reflective opinion piece, and probably a divisive one too. As a programmer who chooses to use “the most mundane features” of any language, Go’s reflect package wasn’t on Neil’s list of things to try, but he “fell into the reflection pool” and.. he’s still not a fan.

I'm Glad I Did It in Go — Thorsten, author of Writing an Interpreter in Go, reflects on how Go was the right language for the book, eight years on.

Elevate Your Backend Skills — Whether it's Python, Go, TypeScript, or AWS, you can gain fundamental knowledge across multiple programming languages, expanding your skillset via our growing range of learning paths and expert-led video courses.

sync.Map: The Right Tool for the Right Job — The latest in Phuong’s popular, illustrated guide to concurrency options in Go digs into sync.Map, a concurrency-safe map for reading and writing across multiple goroutines without requiring explicit locks. It’s not always the perfect choice, though, as he discovers.

Go Gets High-Resolution Timers on Windows — “The Go Windows port added support for high-resolution timers in Go 1.23, boosting resolution from ~15.6ms to ~0.5ms.”

Writing a Circuit Breaker in Go — When you need a mechanism to stop a failing operation being tried over and over, a circuit breaker provides a graceful way to detect failures and recover from them with a cooldown period.

Using Go Embed — The go:embed directive, around since Go 1.16, allows you to embed static files into your binary. But did you know that you can embed entire directories or files into a struct?

Distributed Transactions in Go: Read Before You Try — How to approach transactions that need to span more than one service.

Product for Engineers: A Newsletter Helping Flex Your Product Muscle — Product for Engineers details the skills and strategies product engineers need to succeed.

Kamal 2: Thou Need Not PaaS — Kamal is a container-based deployment tool from 37Signals, best known for their work on Ruby on Rails. It’s language agnostic though, and ▶️ the screencast demo shows off deploying a simple Go app quickly, before moving on to a Ruby example. Certainly a viable new deployment option for Go apps on self-managed servers.

Sidekick: Bare Metal to Production Ready in Minutes — I haven’t tried this yet, but am itching to do so ASAP. Sidekick aims to give you a Fly.io-style single command deployment process out of the box for any VPS you have to hand. Inspired by Kamal (above) but is written in Go.

go-pretty: Pretty Print Tables, Lists and Text on the Terminal — Utilities to prettify console output of tables, lists, progress-bars, text, etc. with a heavy emphasis on customization.

Watermill: Library for Building Event-Driven Apps — A library for working with message streams (over numerous channels like Kafka, RabbitMQ, HTTP or even MySQL binlogs) to build event driven apps.

xmlquery: An XPath Library for Querying XML Documents — For plucking out all elements with certain names or attributes, say.