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ogen 1.5: OpenAPI v3 Code Generator for Go — Best explained in its introductory blog post, ogen generates client and server implementation code from an OpenAPI spec. GitHub repo.

Excelize 2.9: A Pure Go Way to Work with Excel Spreadsheets — Read and write XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM and XLTX files. A long time library that keeps going from strength to strength. v2.9 is focused on details and rolls out numerous new functions in a variety of areas like working on charts and image-based cells. GitHub repo.

🗓️ Enterprise Ready Conference — One-day event in SF for prod/eng leaders building enterprise SaaS — with speakers from OpenAI, Vanta, Canva, Dropbox.

Leveraging benchstat Projections in Go Benchmark Analysis — benchstat is a stdlib tool that compares and contrasts benchmark data generated by Go benchmark tests. This post brings you up to speed with what benchstat offers and why you might want to use it.

Optimizing and Visualizing Test Parallelism: Why More Cores Don't Speed Up Your Go Tests — You’re probably aware of t.Parallel() to run tests in parallel, but did you know it can sometimes slow tests down? Robert runs through some tools and tactics to help visualize and optimize tests and when to bother running them in parallel.

Sablier 1.8: An API for Running Containers on Demand — .. and shutting them down automatically once there’s no activity.

gh-dash 4.7: A CLI-Based Dashboard for GitHub — A TUI app for displaying a dashboard of pull requests and issues filtered however you like.

A Taste of Go Code Generator Magic: A Quick Guide to Getting Started — There aren’t many tutorials on Go code generation, which inspired the author to show how they created a program to generate boilerplate to wrap functions. You, too, could generate some code and free time.

Greenmask: Postgres Data Masking and Obfuscation Tool — A Go-powered utility for dumping a Postgres database and anonymizing the data in a deterministic way. GitHub repo.

Automate Complex Workflows Across Clouds & Data Platforms — Kestra scales to millions of executions, automating workflows across AWS, GCP, Snowflake, and more—seamless and reliable.

▶  Russ Cox on Passing the Torch — Former Go tech lead Russ Cox went on the Go Time podcast recently to talk about the process of stepping down and handing over the reins to new leader Austin Clements (who also makes an appearance, as well as Cherry Mui who took over some of Austin’s prior responsibilities). There’s more about the changes in this post...

'When I Told 4,091 Writers They Weren’t Getting Paid..' — An engineer over at the annoying paywall popular writing platform shares the unfortunate tale of a subtle bug / race condition that led to a lot of writers recieving unnecessary bad news. It’s worth reading about situations like this, as they can creep up in all sorts of places.

Run GitHub Actions Up to 2x Faster at Half the Cost — Blacksmith runs your GitHub Actions substantially faster by running them on modern gaming CPUs. Integrating Blacksmith is a one-line code change. 100+ companies like Ashby, Superblocks, and Slope use Blacksmith to help developers merge code faster.

Gomponents 1.0: HTML View Components in Pure Go — We first linked to this over three years ago, and it’s not only going strong, it’s hit v1.0. Now a stable, dependency-free HTML component library for your Go projects (there’s also an example app to look through).

Go Blueprint: Create New Go Projects with a Defined Structure — One of an increasing number of tools (GoForge is another) for spinning up a new Go project with a pre-defined file structure and some code generation. This one lets you spin up an app based on Chi, Gin, Fiber, or other frameworks, as well as database support, and optional tooling like HTMX and...

Toxiproxy 2.10: A TCP Proxy to Simulate 'Chaotic' Network Conditions — A long standing Shopify project designed to stress your system’s reliability and failure handling when it comes to underlying network issues. Toxiproxy can add latency, limit bandwidth, or close connections after a certain amount of data is transferred.

GoToSocial 0.17.0: A Go-Powered ActivityPub Server — ActivityPub is the standard behind open federated social networks such as Mastodon. This isn’t Mastodon but does offer some compatibility with its API so you can use Mastodon client apps with it.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.