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Today I am announcing a Go Language Basics class. The class is provided as a free video and accompanying class materials in PDF format. The class is meant to bring new programmers up to speed with Go. It is heavy on exercises and because its video, it provides animated illustrations of slice internals, pointers, ... This class provides similar materials to what I taught at Google and Microsoft around the globe. [Read More]

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Sooner or later every Go programmer will want to extract an object from another object such as Context or utilize an object that can be set to nil throughout the call stack. However, this can lead to ugly code that looks like: func someFunc(obj *MyObj) { if obj != nil { DoThis() } otherFunc(obj) } func otherFunc(obj *MyObj) { if obj != nil { DoThis() } ... } I this case, if our obj != nil, we want to [Read More]

A simple start When you work in this industry for a while, if your introspective, you can discover what type of programmer you are. You might be a programmer obsessed with performance or trying to find clever tricks. I am neither of those. While I do like to find new techniques or simpler ways to do something, I generally prefer to steal from others who are much smarter than I. [Read More]

Introduction One of the common problems in software development is dealing with storage. When writing micro-services you often are required to store application data in some type of long term storage (filesystem, NFS, SQL, Cloud storage by X vendor, ...). Instead of choosing a storage system and writing code to that storage system's API, it is often better to extract your use cases into a storage API and write concrete implementations [Read More]