Updating your Go packages with Go Package Store
Go Package Store is an app that displays updates for the Go packages in your GOPATH. Why another way to update Go packages when you can already just do go get -u, you might think.
Building Street Address Autocomplete with Go
Almost two years ago, SmartyStreets began an exodus from the .NET platform. What would take its place? Go. Before moving our entire code base from .
Using JUnit Rules to simplify your tests
Have you ever wrote JUnit tests extending a class that does some before and after work, so you didn’t have to repeat that code in various test classes? Well, I will not say that you have been doing it wrong, but, sure enough, you could do it better. How? Using JUnit Rules!...
Going fast at startups
FullStory is a tool for understanding website visitors in a whole new way. An in-page script captures everything that happens during a user’s online session, including the entire DOM and every mutation.
Bleve: Text Search Powered by Go
Bleve, a text indexing and search library for Go, is excited to be part of the celebration of the 5th birthday of Go. Building a complete solution for indexing and search text requires integrating many different technologies. Go, the language, the standard library, the whole ec...
How Continuum ended up being written in Go
In March of 2012, I had just left VMware and the project I had founded, architected and built, Cloud Foundry. PaaS then was still very new, as was a distributed system built in Ruby.
Using Go in government
When the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) started working on GOV.UK, much of it was built in Ruby. Since then, we’ve used a number of different programming languages across government including Java, Clojure, Scala, Python and Javascript.
To be Concurrent or Not to be? Sometimes Both
Go really makes concurrency easy. That said, there’s still some things to watch out for and not every 3rd party package you find out there is ready to have “go” put in front of its functions.
Why InfluxDB is written in Go
InfluxDB is an open source time series database written in Go. One of the important distinctions between Influx and some other time series solutions is that it doesn’t require any other software to install and run.
Kubernetes + Go = Crazy Delicious
What is Kubernetes? And what kind of name is that? Kubernetes is a container cluster management system. Modeled after Google’s internal systems, Kubernetes (or k8s for short) allows users to schedule the running of Docker containers over a cluster of machines.