A quick Go quiz

#​511 — June 18, 2024

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Go Weekly

Why People are 'Angry' Over Go 1.23 Iterators— ‘Angry’ feels overstated to us, but there’s been a lot of robust debate about Go’s proposed new iterator helpers (see them in action here) on social media this week (e.g. Reddit). There’s a broad mix of opinions, and the creator of the Odin language chimes in with his thoughts, opining that Go should stay unapologetically imperative.

Ginger Bill

💡 Chris Siebenmann chimes in too, acknowledging the complexity of the problem, but how Go's solution has benefits in terms of reducing potential errors.

A Quiz on Advanced Concepts for Go Developers— Someone made a quiz on Go concepts if you’d like to test your chops. Twelve quick multiple choice questions await.

martialdouble-t

Redis With Wings. Better Performance. Less Overhead— Dragonfly (24k GitHub stars) is a fully compatible drop-in Redis replacement. Dragonfly achieves 25X better performance than Redis and supports millions of QPS on a single instance. Download and deploy yourself or get a free trial of Dragonfly Cloud.

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Putting Go's context Into Context— A romp through various types of context, from empty to WithDeadline, because “the real beauty is on the inside”, claims the author.

Abin Simon

Common Anti-Patterns in Go Web Apps— An interesting checklist to consider to ensure you don't slip into unhelpful patterns and, instead, write loosely coupled code that keeps everyone productive and happy.

Miłosz Smółka

📄 Performance Benchmarking: gRPC + Protobuf vs. HTTP + JSONAlex Pliutau

📄 Go is a Platform– A gushing reminder of how everything that comes with Go out-of-the-box forms a comprehensive suite of evolving developer tools. Elton Minetto

📄 UUIDv7 Implemented in 20 Languages– Surprisingly short and sweet. Anton Zhiyanov

🛠 Code & Tools

Goyave v5.0: Another REST-Based Go Web Framework— One of many players in this space, but one that's undergone a significant revamp over the past year. The emphasis is on providing an opinionated, defined structure and architecture for 'enterprise' tier apps. (Official homepage.)

Jérémy LAMBERT

Dynamo 2.0: An Expressive Amazon DynamoDB Library— Integrates with the official AWS SDK but gives you a tidier abstraction. v2.0 uses aws-sdk-go-v2 under the hood and while it maintains an almost identical API, there are a handful of small changes that may require you update your code.

Greg Roseberry

Temporal for Startups— Startups: Ship fast with Temporal. Guaranteed reliability. Code in your language. Get $2,400 free credits & expert advice to accelerate success.

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Age 1.2: A Simple File Encryption Tool and Go Library— Boasts small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

Filippo Valsorda

tbls: A CI-Friendly Tool for Documenting Databases— Document a database automatically in Markdown format with schemas rendered via DOT, PlantUML, Mermaid, or direct to images. By default you get documentation covering columns, indexes, relations, and other schema details (here’s a sample).

Ken’ichiro Oyama

dblab: An Interactive Client for Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite3— A cross-platform (including Windows) TUI-style app for working with various database systems. Certainly looks rather different to typical CLI clients.

Daniel Omar Vergara Pérez

jsondiff 0.6: JSON Diffing Library Based on RFC 6902 (JSON Patch)— RFC 6902 defines a JSON structure for expressing patching operations on other JSON documents.

William Poussier

• TinyGo 0.32.0– The Go compiler for 'small places', like microcontrollers and WebAssembly. v0.32.0 supports LLVM 18, drops Go 1.18 support, and supports more new hardware.

• validator 10.22– Value validations for structs and fields based on tags.

• Cloudflare Go 2.3– Official library for the Cloudflare API.

• NATS.go 1.36– Go client for the NATS messaging system.

• dae 0.6– High-perf transparent proxy based on eBPF.

• Buf 1.33– CLI tool for working with Protocol Buffers.

• Pond 1.9– Minimalist goroutine worker pool.