~golangweekly | Issue 556 - Stop worrying about Go's error handling syntax (9)

[ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.