Go is a modern programming language and as such was designed with incredible testing support out of the gate. Project and file organization combined with official tooling and a lean but powerful (and also official) testing library: that's all you need to know to get started. Let's start from the top: the go test command Go’s standard library already…

One of the most ubiquitous things in Go are functions with two, or more, return values, where most often than not, the last one is an error. There is a limited set of courses of action for these errors, and I’ll cover them in this article. Handling errors When an error occurs…

I haven’t met a developer that purposefully builds non-performant software. On the contrary, premature optimization is one of the most common pitfalls we have to be aware of at all times. If I’d have to pick just two of the possible undesired consequences of premature optimization I’d choose: Acquired complexity…

At Wildlife, we have an incredible variety of backend systems with all sorts of complexities. We are also heavy users of Golang, and over time I had the chance to be exposed to brilliant ideas from several of my coworkers. …