#566 — August 20, 2025
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☀️ We're back from a week off – the previous issue is here if you want to check it out again – and we should now be back every week until October at least :-)__Peter Cooper, your editor
    
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        New GOMAXPROCS defaults in Go 1.25 improve behavior in containers.
    
    
    
    
    
    
        I’ve spent most of my career working in New York City. Every morning, I’d walk past those towering skyscrapers, genuinely amazed at what humans can build together. The engineering, the coordination, the trust required. It’s breathtaking.
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        Starting this post as I'm on the way home from a great few days at GopherCon UK, I had a great time.
This year's GopherCon UK was a little different than last year's given this year there were "tutorials" as a third session type.
GopherCon UK runs both "workshops&q...
    
    
    
    
    
    
        Our brains can only do one thing at once, but Go programs can manage 
millions of independently-executing concurrent tasks. Let’s find out how 
that works, and learn why concurrency is central to Go.
    
    
    
    
    
    
        A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download.
The post Go 1.25.0-1 Microsoft build now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
    
    
    
    
    
    
        Go 1.25 adds container-aware GOMAXPROCS, testing/synctest package, experimental GC, experimental encoding/json/v2, and more.
    
    
    
    
    
    
        A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
The post Go 1.24.6-1 and 1.23.12-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
    
    
    
    
    
    
        The peak of hype isn’t the best moment to reflect on AI.
Will it take your job, or is it the next fad like NFTs?
Are AI startups ridiculously overvalued, or are the companies that sleep on AI doomed?
Time will tell. LLMs are far from perfect, but I’m excited they&rsqu...
    
    
    
    
    
    
        #565 — August 6, 2025
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☀️ We're taking next week off, so this will be the last issue until Wednesday, August 20. Just a little summer vacation.__Peter Cooper, your editor
    
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