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Go: Optional Arguments in the age of Generics

Go’s standard method of providing optional arguments to functions has been a combination of a function type and variadic arguments.

Oct 21, 2024

Go: Optional Arguments in the age of Generics

Oct 21, 2024

Go: Faking Method Calls Within a Struct

This is a follow up on an article I wrote on using functional State Machines to ease testing requirements.

Jul 26, 2024

A gopher wearing a disguise.

Jul 26, 2024

Go State Machine Patterns

Introduction

Mar 12, 2024

Go State Machine Patterns

Mar 12, 2024

Go: And Leave Your Java Factories Behind

Recently I saw an article come up about using the Go Factory pattern. The article was encouraging people to use a pattern that may have a…

Mar 9, 2024

Go: And Leave Your Java Factories Behind

Mar 9, 2024

Writing an interface that only sub-packages can implement

Sometimes we need to provide an interface that we only want our packages to implement.

May 11, 2023

Writing an interface that only sub-packages can implement

May 11, 2023

Testing gRPC methods

I was recently asked by a colleague on the best way to test a gRPC method for streaming. They were trying to find a simple way to test…

Apr 28, 2023

Testing gRPC methods

Apr 28, 2023

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Go: Support Universal Binaries Using Shell Script

Introduction

Aug 16, 2022

Go: Support Universal Binaries Using Shell Script

Aug 16, 2022

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Go: Call option that can be used with multiple methods

Allow shared options in function and method calls, now with type safety!

Aug 4, 2022

Go: Call option that can be used with multiple methods

Aug 4, 2022

Go: Using SSH and Domain Sockets For Serving

Have you ever found the need to secure access to administrative traffic? This might be a system agent or a diagnostic endpoints for a…

Nov 4, 2021

Go: Using SSH and Domain Sockets For Serving

Nov 4, 2021

This article does a good job of summing up speed differences. Here are a few notes:

gRPC is going to win here because of the JSON encode/decode speed:

May 22, 2021

May 22, 2021

John Doak

John Doak

Principal SWE@Microsoft, Ex-Google, Ex-Lucasfilm, Author of “Go For DevOps”, Photographer and general trouble maker

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