Refactoring with go fmt
I’ve recently been getting into go. I’ve built a few applications and libraries. For this post, let’s explore the ‘gofmt’ or ‘go fmt’ tool further.
Understanding Mutexes
For anyone new to building web applications with Go, it's important to realise that all incoming HTTP requests are served in their own Goroutine. This means that any code in or called by your application handlers will be running concurrently, and there is a risk of race cond...
Cross Compile Your Go Programs
Introduction In my post about building and running programs in Iron.Io, I needed to switched over to my Ubuntu VM to build linux versions of my test programs locally. I love the ability to have Ubuntu available to me for building and testing my code. However, if I can stay on the...
Go Package Management Call To Action
Nathan Youngman, with the help of others, has produced this document outlining months of research and discovery. I would appreciate everyone to honestly read it before continuing with my post. http://nathany.com/go-packages/ Mitchell Hashimoto also published this post on go-...
Detecting Race Conditions With Go
I always find it interesting when I realize that something I have been practicing or dealing with for a long time has a name. This time it happens to be race conditions. This is something you can’t avoid thinking about as soon as you have more than one routine sharing any k...
Recursion And Tail Calls In Go
This article was written for and published by Gopher Academy I was looking at a code sample that showed a recursive function in Go and the writer was very quick to state how Go does not optimize for recursion, even if tail calls are explicit. I had no idea what a tail call was an...
Iterating Over Slices In Go
Slices are used everywhere in my code. If I am working with data from MongoDB, it is stored in a slice. If I need to keep track of a collection of problems after running an operation, it is stored in a slice. If you don’t understand how slices work yet or have been avoiding...
Golang Automatic Reloads
I wrote a short Bash script to automatically reload Go programs. The script acts as a light wrapper around go run, stopping and restarting it whenever a .go file in your current directory or $GOPATH/src folder is saved. I've been using it mainly when developing web appl...
Twitter drops Ruby - The Bullshit
This post is about the Twitter change from Ruby to Java, some years ago, fact that, sadly, is still being used by some people to say that Ruby sucks and Java is the best language in the world. Before you read that, a little background on me would be good: Java is the first langua...
Pool Go Routines To Process Task Oriented Work
After working in Go for some time now, I learned how to use an unbuffered channel to build a pool of goroutines. I like this implementation better than what is implemented in this post. That being said, this post still has value in what it describes. https://github.com/goinggo/wo...