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The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know

Did you have a situation when you lost a ton of time finding a Go library for your need? In theory, you can check lists like Awesome Go or make a choice based on GitHub stars. But Awesome Go contains …

Safer Enums in Go

Enums are a crucial part of web applications. Go doesn’t support them out of the box, but there are ways to emulate them. Many obvious solutions are far from ideal. Here are some ideas we use …

Common Anti-Patterns in Go Web Applications

At one point in my career, I was no longer excited about the software I was building. My favorite part of the job were low-level details and complex algorithms. After switching to user-facing …

How to implement Clean Architecture in Go (Golang)

The authors of Accelerate dedicate a whole chapter to software architecture and how it affects development performance. One thing that often comes up is designing applications to be “loosely …

The Repository pattern in Go: a painless way to simplify your service logic

I’ve seen a lot of complicated code in my life. Pretty often, the reason of that complexity was application logic coupled with database logic. Keeping logic of your application along with your …

Introduction to DDD Lite: When microservices in Go are not enough

When I started working in Go, the community was not looking positively on techniques like DDD (Domain-Driven Design) and Clean Architecture. I heard multiple times: “Don’t do Java in …

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The Over-Engineering Pendulum

I used to picture my dream job as this: I work for an early-stage startup that recently raised a round. The business idea is promising, there’s much to build, everything seems possible, and we …

Watermill 1.4 Released (Event-Driven Go Library)

It’s Autumn over here, and it usually means another release of Watermill! 🍂 It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the v1.0 release. In case you’re new to …

Optimising and Visualising Go Tests Parallelism: Why more cores don't speed up your Go tests

Recently, I struggled for a couple of hours to understand why the API tests of one project were slow. In theory, we designed tests to run in a fully parallel way – the duration of tests should …

Distributed Transactions in Go: Read Before You Try

In the previous post, I looked into running transactions in a layered architecture. Now, let’s consider transactions that need to span more than one service. If you work with microservices, a …

Database Transactions in Go with Layered Architecture

As I join a new company, I often feel like an impostor. After all the interviews, they really seem to know what they’re doing. I’m humbled and ready to learn from the best. On one such …

Live website updates with Go, SSE, and htmx

In case you missed the memo, the Single Page Application hype period is over, and we’re now back to PHP and jQuery, I mean rendering HTML on the server. I’m excited! It brings me back to …

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