MacBook Pro 14 - a quick review

I got a MacBook Pro 14" with an Apple M1 Pro SoC, 16GB of memory and 500GB of disk a couple of weeks ago, and wanted to write my impressions about it, since a lot of people ask.

Announcing GoReleaser v1.2 — Santa/5 year anniversary edition

GoReleaser v1.2 is out — likely be the last feature release of 2021.  It also marks the first 5 years since its first commit. It comes packed with some great features and fixes by several people!

Generics facilitators in Go

Go 1.18 is going to be released with generics support. Adding generics to Go was a multi-year effort and was a difficult one. Go type system is not a traditional type system and it was not possible just to bring an existing generics implementation from other language and be done....

In Go 1.18, generics are implemented through code specialization

A bit on compilation's changing number of stages (and assembly)

Gophers Say GopherCon Edition

Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie Hockman, Julie Qui, and Rob Findley to battle it out and see who can better guess what the GopherCon gophers had to say! Listen to the podcast at https://changelog.com/gotime/211 Transcript...

Continuous integration with Go and GitHub Actions

In this post we're going to walk through how to use GitHub Actions to create a continuous integration (CI) pipeline that automatically tests, vets and lints your Go code. For solo projects I usually create a pre-commit Git hook to carry out these kinds of checks, but for team p...

Shardz

Shard coordination has been one of the bigger challenges to design sharded systems especially for engineers with little experience in the subject. Companies like Facebook have been using general purpose shard coordinators, e.g. Shard Manager, and suggesting that general purpose s...

Changelog grouping with GoReleaser v1.1

In the v1.1 release, GoReleaser introduced a new feature called “changelog groups”. This is a quick post to spread the word.

Auto-generated C4 Architecture Diagrams in Go

Note Hello! Please give Krzysztof a warm welcome in the first guest post on our blog. 🎉 We’ve been working with Krzysztof for the past two years, and we’re excited to share his work here. Miłosz & Robert We all struggle with software architecture diagra...