Learn building professional Go software

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

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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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 …

Making Games in Go for Absolute Beginners

Here’s a rant I often see in developer communities: I used to love programming because I like building stuff. But my full-time job killed my passion. I spend more time in meetings, fighting over …

Watermill 1.3 released, an open-source event-driven Go library

Hey, it’s been a long time! We’re happy to share that Watermill v1.3 is now out! What is Watermill Watermill is an open-source library for building message-driven or event-driven …

Watermill v1.2 released

After almost three years since the last stable release, Watermill v1.2 is finally out! If you’re new here, Watermill is our open-source library for building event-driven applications in Go, the …

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The Best Go framework: no framework?

While writing this blog and leading Go teams for a couple of years, the most common question I heard from beginners was “What framework should I use?”. One of the worst things you can do …

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