Announcing GoReleaser v2.10

This version introduces the new Homebrew Casks feature, an experimental MCP server, plus many other small improvements.

Go 1.24.4-1 and 1.23.10-1 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.24.4-1 and 1.23.10-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

You could automate (some) boilerplate Go error handling with a formatter

Generating Go code from JSON Schema documents

Folks familiar with me and my blog will know I'm one of the Core Maintainers for oapi-codegen, and am a big fan of generating code from schemas (in a "design first" manner). When I'm not documenting things with OpenAPI, I'll be documenting things with JSON Schema. Today...

Event-Driven Architecture: The Hard Parts

Quick takeaways Event-driven architecture (EDA) is powerful but tricky – it’s great for scaling and decoupling, but has many hidden traps. Observability is essential – debugging async systems without tracing, logs, and correlation IDs is almost impossible. Use the outb...

Creating cross-compiled Docker images from Go binaries

I've recently been doing some work to improve the way a couple of Go services have their container images built, so they can be built by humans on either Intel or ARM based machines, and pushed to our container registry which will then be pulled by Intel-based infrastructure. Add...

Stop worrying about Go's error handling syntax

#​556 — June 4, 2025 Unsub  |  Web Version 🖊️ I was meant to be travelling this week. My plans changed, but I’d already planned for a shorter issue, so it’s a quicker one this time. Back to full service next week!__Peter Cooper, your editor...

[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling

Go team plans around error handling support

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Architecture

Quick takeaways Start with synchronous architecture by default - it’s simpler to understand, debug, and maintain for most use cases Async architecture improves scalability and resilience - message queues and events help handle traffic spikes and failures Design matters mor...

Go in the Google I/O spotlight

#​555 — May 28, 2025 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly ▶  What's New in Go: Google's Take — Released as part of last week’s Google I/O, Go’s project lead and lead devrel team up to present an extensive list of recent additi...