Go

• July 25, 2026

  go

  Supervised fire-and-forget in Go

  A bounded worker pool for small background tasks, with task-owned contexts, panic recovery, and graceful shutdown.

• July 4, 2026

  go

  Modernizers & go fix

  Go 1.26 rebuilt go fix on the analysis framework. It modernizes your code and respects the Go version your module declares. The post covers the modernizers, the bigger x/tools suite, and what //go:fix inline can and can't migrate.

• April 18, 2026

  go

  Peeking into Go struct tags

  A quick tour of Go struct tags: how different libraries use them, how you read them at runtime with reflection, and how other tools read them at build time instead.

• February 24, 2026

  go

  What canceled my Go context?

  How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path.

• November 1, 2025

  go

  Revisiting interface segregation in Go

  Apply SOLID's Interface Segregation Principle in Go with consumer-defined contracts. Learn why small interfaces and implicit implementation matter.

• September 20, 2025

  go

  Let the domain guide your application structure

  Organize Go apps by domain, not technology. Learn why models/controllers structure hurts and how bounded contexts create better separation.

• September 7, 2025

  go

  Early return and goroutine leak

  Prevent goroutine leaks caused by early returns with unbuffered channels. Learn buffering, draining, errgroup patterns, and goleak testing.

• August 3, 2025

  go

  Gateway pattern for external service calls

  Separate business logic from external service calls using the Gateway pattern. Apply dependency inversion and interface segregation in Go.

• February 8, 2025

  go

  Why does Go's io.Reader have such a weird signature?

  Understand why io.Reader takes a byte slice parameter instead of returning one. Learn about heap allocations and buffer reuse in Go streams.

• October 6, 2024

  go

  Writing a circuit breaker in Go

  Build a production-ready circuit breaker in Go from scratch with closed, open, and half-open states to prevent cascading failures.