A short overview of the testing package The testing package from Golang’s standard library provides support for automated testing of Go packages. It is intended to be used in combination with the go test command. In combination with go test, this package…

So you enjoy go and are ready to take your go-application to production standards. Here is a listing of some tricks on how to get your application production-ready. Not all these advices will apply to …

Learn five things about VS Code with Amanda Silver and John Papa

It’s been a long time since I wrote about the bot I’m building. Life happened. A lot of it. Now, when things are settling down, I might have again the time and the energy to program the bot some more and write about it in the process.
Last time the bot learned…

While the stdlib of Go is incredibly capable, not everything is baked into it. Here are 6 well-liked Go frameworks that extend the functionality of Go.

LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE. - GitHub - visualfc/liteide: LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.

[Archived] See https://github.com/goava/di. Contribute to defval/inject development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Go (golang) package for building frictionless command-line interfaces - GitHub - jpillora/opts: A Go (golang) package for building frictionless command-line interfaces

With all of these development tutorials and courses on the internet, how do we make sure we are retaining what we read? In this post I discuss different techniques that help improve how fast you learn, how much info is retained, and even ways to expand beyond…

Speechmatics welcomed the Cambridge programming community to its offices in Cambridge where we host our monthly Go Meetups. Speechmatics’ Go Meetup is a chan...

A curated list of awesome #Golang frameworks, libraries and software

As we advance towards writing micro systems and maintain smaller code bases, Go flexibility for project structure has a lot to offer in software engineering.

GitHub’s Semantic team recently wrote:
An example of [dynamic control flow] is the concept of resumable exceptions. During Semantic’s interpretation passes, invalid code (unbound variables, type errors, infinite recursion) is recognized and handled based…

Write integration tests for Golang HTTP handlers, with GORM and mux. Continued from “Building a Go Web API.”

In this tutorial, you will build a sample Go application and get it up and running locally on your development machine. Then you’ll containerize the applicat…