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Top 10 Golang Bugs to Spot Fast in Code Reviews
Common Golang code bugs to point out quickly during code reviews.
How I Built a 1 GB Observability Stack for My Go Startup Using Prometheus, Loki,...
I needed observability for my Go Telegram bot running on a free VPS with only 4 GB of RAM, where the app already used ~2 GB. After...
Go's Cryptography Packages Were Audited: The Results
Go ships with a full suite of cryptography packages in the standard library to help developers build secure applications. Google r...
What You Have to Know About Syntactic Support for Error Handling
Go has a built-in error handling function called 'try' It is used to augment errors before returning them. Go users have long comp...
SnapPoint: A Hard Reset for Your Dev Machine
SnapPoint is a system auditor and a package manager manager. Its job is to understand what is installed on your machine, where it...
I Built a Go-Based ngrok Alternative With Zero Dependencies
Built a complete ngrok-like tunnel service in Go in one evening (~3.5 hours of focused coding time). Includes both client CLI and...
Generic interfaces: When to Use Them
As interfaces are types themselves, they too can have type parameters. This idea proves to be surprisingly powerful when it comes...
Go 1.25 is released - The Go Programming Language
Go 1.25 comes with improvements over Go 1.24 across its [tools], [compiler], [linker], and [standard library] There are also [port...
The Practical Way for Developers to Learn Algorithms
Many developers quietly assume Big-O and data structures are only for low-level specialists. Stacksmith is my experiment to dispro...
How to Build a Status Monitoring Service in Go
This tutorial walks through building StatusD, a self-hosted monitoring service in Go that reads monitored endpoints from JSON, pro...
Container-aware GOMAXPROCS: What it is and Why It's Important
Go 1.25 includes new container-aware `GOMAXPROCS` defaults. These defaults provide more sensible default behavior for many contain...
How to Build a Production-Ready Go Diagnostic Rule
Build and ship a production-ready Go diagnostic rule using go/analysis.
