Welcome Go is unique among mainstream programming languages in that its standard library web server is not a complete afterthought. The Go language is well-suited for engineering complex networked services and Go’s standard library recognizes that many (if not most) of thos...
From-the-state’s-secret-department Today’s post comes to us from the Go team’s own Andrew Gerrand. Reporting from deep inside an undisclosed location, Andrew lifts the lid on one of Go’s greatest mysteries: how does the Go Playground work?
Introduction Martini is a Go package for web server development that has gained quite a bit of popularity over the last month. Martini was written to help make web development in Go a convenient, expressive, and DRY (pun intended) process.
Introduction I am very excited about the Beego web framework. I wanted to share with you how I use the framework to build real world web sites and web services. Here is a picture of the sample website the post is going to showcase: The sample web application: Implements a traditi...
Introduction Today we’re going to go against the general theme of the Go Advent Calendar and introduce No New Hotness™. That’s because today is all about why folks in IT operations <3 go.
At Ardan Studios we have spent the last 6 months, in our spare time and on weekends, building a consumer based mobile application called OutCast. The mobile application is tailored towards those who like spending time outdoors, whether that be fishing, hunting or any other type o...
Introduction At Ardan Studios we have spent the last 6 months, in our spare time and on weekends, building a consumer based mobile application called OutCast.
At the end of 1963 the UK was in the grip of Beatlemania, but for an impressionable 7-year old like me, it was the arrival of Doctor Who that really fired my imagination.
Introduction When we set out to build GOV.UK, the new home for UK Government information and services, we decided up front that we wanted an architecture that would allow us to build very focussed applications that did one thing well.
Introduction At Poptip, our first foray into Go was a small but critical service that required extremely high throughput for a non-trivial amount of text processing.