Work with Semantic Versions in Go

We're building Dolt, the world's first SQL database with Git-like version control. Dolt has a large test suite, partly in golang unit tests and partly in bats, a framework for writing tests that run in Bash and can easily test many interactions with standalone programs.

Testing some of Dolt's features, like standby replication, requires spawning and coordinating multiple processes. Bats and Bash wasn't the right tool for the job. Luckily, Go has great facilities for spawning and interacting with background processes. While running processes from Go is not as concise as running them from the shell, it has robust facilities for error handling and concurrency.

D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

In this article, I’ll demonstrate the basics of handling errors in Go, as well as some simple strategies you can follow in your code to ensure your program is robust and easy to debug.

This tutorial introduces the basics of generics in Go. With generics, you can declare and use functions or types that are written to work with any of a set of types provided by calling code.

This post is full of ways that you should not use Go generics in production.

Workspaces in Go 1.18 let you work on multiple modules simultaneously without having to edit go.mod files for each module. Each module within a workspace is treated as a main module when resolving dependencies.

This guide is intended to aid advanced Go users in better understanding their application costs by providing insights into the Go garbage collector. It also provides guidance on how Go users may use these insights to improve their applications' resource utilization. It does not assume any knowledge of garbage collection, but does assume familiarity with the Go programming language.

At Bitly, we’ve been all in on Go as our preferred back-end language since about 2015. 

NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.

Better structured concurrency for go

We only wanted to include libraries we used on real production systems. Thanks to that, we recommend just libraries that we are 100% sure about.

Building event-driven applications the easy way in Go.

This is a long-form version of a talk I gave in 2018 providing guidance on designing libraries in Go.

tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go.