Advanced Reflection with Go at HashiCorp

Advanced Reflection with Go at HashiCorp HashiCorp builds a diverse set of popular DevOps tools written in Go: Packer, Serf, Consul, and Terraform. While these tools range from desktop software to highly scalable distributed systems, their internals all have one thing in common:...

How to build a Modbus driver in Go?

This article serves as a practical guide into how to build a Modbus driver. I use the Go (Golang) programming language because I like it . However, the principles outlined should apply to any stack. I happen to be a software engineer who works in SCADA. What does that mean?  it...

Go at CoreOS

Go at CoreOS When we launched the CoreOS project we knew from the very beginning that everything we built would be written in Go. This was not to make a fashion statement, but rather Go happened to be the perfect platform for reaching our goals – to build products that make...

How Go Helped Shape Splice's engineering culture

Go is a trendy programming language, but let’s be honest: the Go language doesn’t have anything new that wasn’t first implemented somewhere else. As a matter of fact, Go is a pretty boring programming language.

Kite: Library for writing distributed microservices

Writing web services with Go is super easy. The simple but powerful net/http package lets you write performant web services in a very quick way.

OpenShift 3 and Go: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

The first commit to OpenShift (the Platform as a Service that is so hipster that we were doing containers even before it was cool) was four years ago.

Inspeqtor

When I decided to build Inspeqtor (source), I had a fundamental choice: what language should I build it in? I’ve worked in Ruby for the last 8 years so it was a natural choice: “use the tool you know best” is never a bad choice when solving your own problem.

Gogs: GitLab alternative in Go

What is Gogs and why we make it? Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git Service written in Go. It aims to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service.

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 .