1111 Years • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-11-17
1111 Years Hi , Go turned 1111 years, or 15 if converted to decimal. That's still young, compared to (even more) established languages like Java or C++. But...
Go Practical! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-11-10
Go Practical! Hi , Today's issue is all about practical Go! Build a system monitor, write secure code, understand sync.Once, listen to the creators of Elvish...
First Principles First! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-11-03
First Principles First! Hi , Back to the basics: How does an HTTP router work? How does Go's time formatting work? How does fuzz testing work? I think that...
A Liberating Language • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-10-27
A Liberating Language Hi , How important is the choice of language for the success of a project, in the short and long term? Some programmers consider one...
Of tests, goats, and swiss tables • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-10-20
Of tests, goats, and swiss tables Hi , Binary size is usually not a problem... until it is. If the usual methods of shrinking binaries aren't sufficient, a...
To bot or not to bot? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-10-13
To Bot Or Not To Bot? Hi , LLMs are getting better every few months, and the discussions about the pros and cons enter a new round every time a new model is...
Beyond Paradigms • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-10-06
Did you ever try mentioning to functional programming purists that Go has some aspects of functional programming (specifically, functions as first-class...
Real time? What do you mean? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-29
"Go has garbage collection and therefore can never be considered a high-speed language." Um, wrong. Speed is relative, and Go is orders of magnitudes faster...
Brutalism • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-22
What's your preferred configuration language? YAML, JSON, TOML, or environment variables? Or do you suffer from a general configuration language allergy?...
Running in Circles • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-15
When I wrote this week's spotlight, these lines from Tears For Fears' song "Mad World" came to my mind: I find it hard to tell you 'Cause I find it hard to...
It's My Project And I Cry If I Want To • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-08
Contrary to my usual habits, I decided to include two projects in the Featured section that are the results of great personal dedication and persistence....
KISS. Because YAGNI. • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-09-01
Beware of over-engineering. Sometimes, a quick hack is sufficient. This week's spotlight describes an example: Instead of selecting a CLI command library and...
It's (not) magic • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-25
Magic can be wonderful. Shake a wand like a conductor of an orchestra and turn that impenetrable door into dust. Quaff a magic potion and gain enough...
One, two, three • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-18
This week, I struggled with a codebase that I hadn't touched for a while. What a mess! My brains worked hard to reconstruct how all the parts work together,...
Show me your API • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-11
Humans love to communicate, and likewise does the software they create. To communicate over a distance, humans use telephones, email, or text or video chat,...
Shut Up And Take My Telemetry Data! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-08-04
You know that a new Go release is coming when the number of release-specific articles spikes. This issue contains another article, another podcast, and a Go...
My Web App Stack? Go. • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-07-28
Go is said to be the language for backend infrastructure and CLI tools. Nevertheless, countless projects relentlessly work on establishing Go in other...
Bisecting FTW • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletetter 2024-07-21
Slowly, the newsletter gets out of summer break mode. The most surprising article of the week (for me) is Russ Cox's article about the new bisect tool, right...
Six repos • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-07-14
When it's rainy outside, or sunny, cloudy, hot, or cold—weather doesn't matter that much, honestly—, I sometimes think about the future of Go. Will AI code...
500 million • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-07-07
Summer Break! This is the first issue during the summer break. It's much smaller than usual, but I still managed to include some articles from this week....
Supply Chain Attack, Anyone? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-30
Have you heard of the Polyfill attack? Shortly after the Polyfill.js project and domain changed owner, the Polyfill servers injected malware into 100k+...
Tradition vs. Innovation - The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-23
Go's language specification is rock stable, compared to other languages (looking at you, C++!). The Go team is very careful about approving new features to...
Evolving backwards • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-16
The world is constantly evolving, no doubt! The question, however, is: in which direction? Mostly towards increasing complexity (see also last week's issue)....
It's not complex enough yet! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-09
Complexity is everyone's favorite, right? Of course not, but how come that systems, particularly software systems, always seem to tend towards increased...
Stacks that lurk in the shadows • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-06-02
Curiosity skills the cat! Usually, hardware speed improvements cannot be emulated by software on older hardware. Because without the new kind of hardware...
Burrito time: Wrap that error? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-05-26
Do you remember the Go Tip from two weeks ago? I listed three anti-patterns, including dot imports. Dot imports are rightly said to pollute the namespace of...
About hosting a Go service • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-05-19
Whether you build an online service in Go as a side project or for your business, at one point you have to decide where and how to host your service. Should...
This Go code is bad • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-05-12
This week, let's start with two actionable articles. Write a Web app with JetBrains and explore a coding problem that has no optimal solution (but at least,...
Go is like the Millenium Falcon • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-05-05
Today — the day this newsletter has found your inbox — is the Revenge of the Fifth day, following the May the Fourth Be With You day. Obviously, this weekend...
A Go developer and a Rust developer meet in a chatroom • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-04-28
A Go developer and a Rust developer meet in a chatroom... This could be the start of a lame joke about Go vs Rust, but it actually happened — except that the...
Can VMs beat containers in performance? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-04-21
What happened last week? Well, if there is anything I can brag about, I added a dark mode to appliedgo.net. Yay. This was in the back of my head for a long...
Choose your language wisely! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-04-14
Choose your programming language wisely! Those of you who already have worked with several languages know what I mean. I reckon you won't disagree when I say...
Performance, Security, and a Diamond (Problem) • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-04-07
Recently, I have been thinking about the role of IT in consumption of natural resources and carbon dioxide production. Two areas truly stand out: Blockchains...
Try Go in Y Minutes • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-03-31
You may have read about Codapi.org here one or two times. Codapi is a service for embedding runnable code snippets of almost any language into Web pages —...
1. Learn Go, 2. Make Go code faster, 3. Extend Go • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-03-23
In earlier issues of this newlsetter (like this one), I mentioned Codapi.org, a universal, embeddable code playground. Recently, Codapi author Anton Zhiyanov...
Can you make that faster? • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-03-17
Recently, I used some AI chatbot again for quickly generating some code I was too lazy writing myself. Then, I came across an ambitioned company that works...
Dysfunctional options and stupid programmers • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-03-10
Go's intricacies know no bounds - from interface smuggling that augments implementations to the surprising impact of pre-allocating slices. But amid the...
Of cod fish and gophers • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-03-03
JuiceFS, Bacalhau,... I stumbled over quite a few applications Written In Go™ lately. It's amazing to see what cool things people make possible with Go. But...
A Gopher, an Enum, and an Undefined • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-02-25
A Gopher, an Enum and an Undefined walk into a bar... I don't know how to continue that joke, but after reading the article on enums and the Go Tip on...
Goto considered harmless • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-02-18
What's your best practice for writing HTTP servers? I bet there are as many opinions on good HTTP server design as there are Go developers. But there's...
Not another article about Go 1.22, please! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-02-11
Is it already half a year since I posted an article on appliedgo.com/blog? It is, obviously. (Note to self: Reserve more time for writing articles.) Luckily,...
Memory bloat? Do this. • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-02-04
Whew! Two strange and busy weeks are now behind me. Two weeks of testing and tweaking, talking to tech support, tweaking again, weighing pros and cons, and...
Optimize! Optimize! Optimize! • The Applied Go Weekly Newsletter 2024-01-28
A message to my readers: The previous issue had some problems and got delayed by over a week for many readers. Furthermore, the new platform of my mailing...