Sysadmins take note

Working scientists keep a lab notebook in which they write down everything they did, and what the results were. Sysadmin work is also about careful, scientific, detailed experimentation, especially when troubleshooting.

Google releases its agent development kit for Go

#​578 — November 12, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Trends in the Go Ecosystem in 2025 — Analysis of the results from JetBrains’ recent Go Ecosystem Survey digging into which libraries Gophers use most often (much love for Gin...

Red, green, refactor: writing perfect Go, with TDD

Make it work, then make it right: the “red, green, refactor” technique helps us craft Go code that’s correct and beautiful. It’s easy! Shall we play a game?

Put a little Pixie in your cluster

Pixie is a powerful troubleshooting and telemetry tool for clusters. Let’s see how it can help solve the Case of the Sluggish Service.

Go 1.25.4-2 and 1.24.10-1 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.25.4-2 and 1.24.10-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Go's runtime may someday start explicitly freeing some internal memory

Independently verifying Go's reproducible builds

#​577 — November 5, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly "I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds" — Since Go 1.21, every release of the Go toolchain can be rebuilt from source and result in an identical byte-for-byte out...

Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages

✨ Series OverviewThis is the first in a series of posts on the true cost of a programming language. The Leadership Blindspot: How Identity Drives Multi-Million Dollar Technical Debt A programming language is the single most expensive choice a company makes, yet we treat it...

Revisiting interface segregation in Go

Object-oriented (OO) patterns get a lot of flak in the Go community, and often for good reason. Still, I’ve found that principles like SOLID, despite their OO origin, can be useful guides when thinking about design in Go. Recently, while chatting with a few colleagues new t...

A tour of Go's newest garbage collector

#​576 — October 29, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Go's Green Tea Garbage Collector — Go 1.25 introduced a new, experimental garbage collector called ‘Green Tea’. Though experimental, it’s already in production at Google a...