~golangweekly | Bookmarks (153)

httpgrace: A net/http Wrapper with Graceful Shutdown — Rather than call http.ListenAndServe, the idea is you can call httpgrace.ListenAndServe and get graceful shutdown baked in.

franz-go: A Complete Apache Kafka Client Library — A library that “aims to provide every Kafka feature from Apache Kafka v0.8.0 onward” and certainly has a striking featureset.

Simpler Backoff — Exponential backoff algorithms can be complex and difficult to reason about, or you can use a lookup table to make it trivial.

Bob 0.35: SQL Query Builder and ORM/Factory Generator — Though v0.36 and v0.37 have come out in just the past few days, v0.35 was a big milestone for Bob as it enabled the creation of code for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite. Numerous other improvements demand you give it another look too, though – some examples here.

go-binsize-treemap: Render a Visualization of Go Executable Space Usage — Easier to look at than explain in writing! It’s a tool that generates an SVG treemap of how the space inside a Go-built executable is used. Even when it's not useful, it's fun to look at.

[ On | No ] Syntactic Support for Error Handling — The topic of handling errors in Go, and if it’s possible to improve the syntax around doing so, has been raised many times over the years, but sometimes it’s worth drawing a line under things and to focus elsewhere. Robert explains the matter, some of the proposals made over the years, and the...

The Guide to In-House Vs Managed Kubernetes-As-A-Service — Struggling with the “build vs. buy” decision when it comes to Kubernetes infrastructure management? You're not alone! Download the guide to discover the pros and cons of each approach as we break down the associated costs, risks & ROI. Get it today!

Pure vs. Impure Iterators in Go — Go 1.23 introduced custom iterators, but the standard ‘single-use’ vs. not classification can be confusing. This post proposes a clearer pure vs. impure distinction, with concrete examples and performance insights.

Night Knight: A 60 FPS Go Remake of an 80's Videogame — A reader and their partner made an Ebitengine powered retro game, converted from a game originally on the 1980’s MSX home computer. It’s available to download for Windows only.

godump: A Pretty-Printer and Debug Dumper for Structs — Inspired by a similar feature in Laravel, this library lets you print structs, slices, maps, and more, in an easy to read fashion at the terminal.

▶  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 additions and improvements to Go. It’s good to see Google presenting an official roundup and there’s more depth in 20 minutes than you might expect (though you can skip the first few minutes which...

The Results of Go's Cryptography Security Audit — The core team brought in an external security firm to audit Go’s cryptography packages, resulting in a single low-severity issue in an unsupported integration (fixed in Go 1.24) and various other findings. The team also explains some other security enhancements coming to Go soon.

Solving Flaky Tests with Go 1.24's synctest — Goroutine scheduling can introduce hard-to-debug complexity to tests, but Go 1.24’s synctest package can make it easier to test concurrent code by introducing isolated ‘bubbles’ to keep things coordinated and more deterministic.

The Generics Way to Use GORM — GORM is a popular ORM library for Go and its latest release (v1.30.0) has added support for using generics. This post shows off the benefits.

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chafa-go: Render Images in the Terminal with Chafa — Go bindings for Chafa, a C library that uses smart combinations of Unicode symbols to render graphics in terminal environments (or pass images through to terminal emulators with direct image rendering abilities). It uses purego to avoid needing CGO but does need Go 1.24.

FSBroker: Broker, Group, Dedup, and Filter FSNotify Events — A library that sits on top of fsnotify (which works cross-platform) and converts raw file system events into a more usable form.

vipsgen: Go Binding Generator for libvips — libvps is a popular and efficient image processing library. vipsgen lets you generate Go bindings against a libvips install that are type-safe, robust, and fully documented.

Ian Lance Taylor Has Left Google — One of the most active contributors to Go (and the initial creator of the Go frontend for GCC) has left Google and, in turn, the Go project, though he hopes to return as a contributor one day. As a commenter on the related Hacker News thread (which is packed with all sorts of conjecture) said: “It’s hard...

UPX 5.0: The 'Ultimate Packer' for EXecutables — Staying on the theme of compression.. UPX is a tool that adds run-time compression and decompression to executables to reduce their size. It’s not Go specific but can work on Go executables as Ben Boyter discovered back in 2019.

Goldmark: A Markdown Parser Written in Go — Pure Go, easy to extend, and CommonMark compliant (which GitHub-Flavored Markdown is based upon). There’s also a WebAssembly powered Goldmark playground you can try.

Fx 36.0: A Command-Line JSON Processing Tool — If you’ve got some files full of JSON that you want to slice and dice, Fx is for you. Notably, v36 adds support for streaming JSON and tailing such streams, it’s also much faster and less memory hungry when parsing the largest of JSON files. A solid update for a very handy tool.

Outpost: Outbound Webhooks and Event Destinations Infrastructure — A way to add reliable outbound webhooks and events to your apps with support for destination types such as Amazon EventBridge, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, GCP Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, and Kafka.