“Wakeups”: the most important DevOps metric
“How many times were your people woken up by faults in production?” JAX DevOps talks to John about metrics, security, testing, and automation.
Signing Git commits and tags with SSH
You can sign Git commits and tags with SSH keys instead of GPG.
Sixteen great years of Go
#579 — November 19, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly 🎂 Go Turns Sixteen Years Old — Go was open sourced sixteen years ago, and there’s much to be excited about in both the recent past and the near future. Austin gives a min...
Pinning GitHub Actions
If you’re using GitHub Actions in your projects, you should be pinning your actions to specific commit SHAs instead of using tags or branches.
Re-exec testing Go subprocesses
When testing Go code that spawns subprocesses, you usually have three options. Run the real command. It invokes the actual binary that creates the subprocess and asserts against the output. However, that makes tests slow and tied to the environment. You have to make sure the same...
“Frowning at a screen for 200 hours”: on the writing process
John Arundel on his first steps as an author: “If just one person is helped and inspired by this book... then I’m not giving refunds to the others.”
Go’s Sweet 16
Happy Birthday, Go!
Build bridges, not walls
We live in a world of walls, unfortunately, and some people would like to build even more of them. Whatever you think about that, the walls between software developers and IT operations staff don’t do anybody any favours.
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...