10h ago · 11 min read · Go is a language built on simplicity. But simplicity has costs, and one cost Go developers feel acutely is the lack of pattern matching and algebraic data types. If you have ever modeled a closed set
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6h ago · 12 min read · If you have used IBM's fp-go library, you know the promise of functional programming in Go -- and the pain of Go's syntax fighting you every step of the way. Pipe3, Pipe5, Pipe7. Function adapters eve
Join discussion20h ago · 9 min read · Distributed systems fail. Networks drop packets, services become unavailable, and databases timeout. The question isn't whether failures will happen—it's how your Go microservices will handle them when they do. Traditional error handling patterns tha...
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1d ago · 10 min read · Encore is a fantastic framework for building Go backend applications. Its opinionated approach to infrastructure, service discovery, and pub/sub makes it a joy to develop with. But when it comes to se
Join discussion1d ago · 2 min read · Protocol Buffers + Buf CLI reference — the modern way to build typed APIs. Why protobuf over JSON for APIs? 3-10x smaller on the wire. 5-10x faster to parse. Strongly typed schema with generated code for every language. Schema evolution with backward...
Join discussion1d ago · 2 min read · Temporal reference — durable execution: workflows that survive failures, restarts, and months of running. The key mental model Workflow code = deterministic state machine (no I/O, no random, no time.Now()). Activity code = all the side-effectful work...
Join discussion1d ago · 2 min read · OpenTofu reference — drop-in Terraform replacement, now with native state encryption and built-in testing. Migration is usually trivial If you're using Terraform Open Source, switching to OpenTofu is mostly changing the binary. Your .tf files don't n...
Join discussion1d ago · 1 min read · Makefile patterns for software projects that aren't C. Tab vs spaces: the eternal gotcha # WRONG (spaces): build: go build ./... # RIGHT (tab): build: go build ./... Makefile:N: *** missing separator. Stop. means spaces where a tab should b...
Join discussion1d ago · 1 min read · gRPC patterns that aren't obvious from the official docs. Always embed UnimplementedXxx in Go servers type UserServer struct { usersv1.UnimplementedUserServiceServer // forward-compat db *DB } Without this, adding a new RPC method to the p...
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