Go’s simplicity and exhaustive standard library means writing command-line tools is easy and enjoyable. Following the Go philosophy, if you write programs that are small and focussed, you can end up with a pretty powerful little toolbelt of utilities.
GopherCon 2016 will take place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado on July 11th through July 13th, 2016. We’ve listened to the feedback you gave us from GopherCon 2015 and want to explain the changes we’re putting in place for GopherCon 2016.
Go is an awesome language. It’s simple, powerful, has great tooling and many of us really enjoy using it every day. However, as it usually happens with strongly typed languages, we write a good deal of boilerplate to connect things around.
Alastair O’Neill gave a talk at the BSides Manchester security conference in August about userland rootkits that use the LD_PRELOAD mechanism. Most of these rootkits are written in C.
A “monorepo” is a monolithic code repository which contains many different projects and libraries. At DigitalOcean, we have created a monorepo called cthulhu to house all of our Go code.
goa: Untangling microservices The Raise of Microservice Architectures and APIs After suffering through a monolithic Rails application for a number of years, we (the RightScale Engineering team) shifted our focus to microservice architectures.
Yesterday, I answered a question in Quora about the concurrency model in Go. Now, I feel like I want to say more!! Concurrency in Golang is one of the most powerful features in the language. Numerous folks covered the topic, ranging in their takes from very simple to overly com...
Superdog - the Crypto library for Vault from Hashicorp At XOR Data Exchange we deal with a lot of sensitive data for our customers. We needed to be able to support strong encryption with key rotation in a simple and practical way.
In April of this year, Dmitry Vyukov released the first version of go-fuzz, a coverage-guided fuzz testing tool based on ideas from afl. With very little fanfare, he unleashed it on the Go standard library and started filing huge numbers of crashers and other bugs found via autom...
Anyone who spends a few minutes talking with me about development knows I love Go. My Github and Blog are practically a love letter to the language.