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I started a monolith-style web application couple of weeks ago and force to admit that Go is more and more fun to use where I was considering more like Django or Rails before.

For me there was still t…

I've restarted active development on my open source Go backend server API StaticBackend. For a long time I wanted to make its CLI size smaller, and I decided to use Go's plugin package to extract a f…

I've been building SaaS since 2008 and built two with Go. Big spoiler, the technology you choose has a little impact in the early stage of a software business. There's some danger to over-engineer an…

I'm joined by Mark Carpenter, the maintainer of EbitenUI, a UI library you may use with your Ebitengine Go game. Game dev is slowly making its way to Go with game library like Ebitengine and Raylib. …

A follow-up episode on last week episode. We go a little bit deeper into Encore with André Eriksson. Encore can do a lot for your Go project and infrastructure. It allows your team to focus on your p…

This week I'm joined by Bill Kennedy. Bill makes me discover Encore which can handles service-to-service communication while programmers focus on their application. We talk about domain design in Go …

My upcoming SaaS product at first wasn't suppose to be rolled out as a product, but was for my own usage. Turns out as I was using it and selling my online courses that it appears to me as being fair…

In this episode I talk with John Arundel about cryptography in Go. John wrote a great book on the subject called Explore Go: Cryptography.

Security is a growing concerns and you should up your game as…

In 2021 Twilio sent a termination email on their Fax services. I was consulting as the CTO in a credit bureau that was in the start of an acquisition process with Equifax Canada. There was just no ti…

I receive Chris Shepherd and we talk about gRPC in Go. If you're building systems with lots of micro-services, gRPC is a good way to provide strong contracts between your services and improve communi…

This episode was supposed to be focussing on templ, the tempalte library, but as I was going in details I found it hard not to explain the back story of why I started looking for something to help ht…

Quick solo episode on TDD and when I experienced it was used best and when I personally not use it but use an approach of writing a bit of code, than tests, thant another bit of code, etc.

Buying my c…

I chatted with Matt Boyle about debugging Go code. Matt is creating a course about this topic and discussing debugging as a tool you may add to your toolbelt.

Links

• The Ultimate Guide to Debugging With…

Iterators are going to be useful to process large amount of data without having to load an entire slice or maps in memory but instead create iterators that can be used from a for item := range myIter…

Something absurd happened in 2024 for one of my consulting client's production web application, and this code for a time. The time zero value is behaving differently than it has been since 2018.

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I react to the post on the Go subreddit of last week talking about a null pointer error occuring in production for a Go program.

This is the YouTube video I made.

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Typical reasons to use Go might sounds exciting for us used to Go, but might not be as attractive for people that haven't experienced Go yet and might not realize they have some small heritants that …

Things were very different when I started as a junior developer. This is a story of an out of the ordinary day where worked from ~9h am to 11am (the next day), the two of us that were in charge of ev…

As we're building more and more of distributed systems I believe that one trait / culture successful team will require is discipline. Personal opinion, we tend to complicate our lives in the last dec…