Golang Weekly - Going supersonic

Sonic: A Newly Open Sourced Low Latency Network and I/O Library — Not to be confused with the eponymous blogging tool or JSON library, this Sonic is an asynchronous network and I/O library for Go, newly open sourced by a company specializing in trading infrastructure. “Sonic is an alternative to the net package. It removes the need to use multiple goroutines to handle multiple connections and reads/writes in the same process.” GitHub repo.

Talos

Stytch: Auth0 Alternative for AuthN, AuthZ, Fraud Prevention — Use Stytch for enterprise-grade multi-tenant B2B auth with SSO, RBAC, and SCIM. Use pre-built UIs, go headless, or integrate directly with the API. Plus, Stytch has device fingerprinting built-in to detect bots and prevent abuse. Get started free.

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The Two Reasons I Prefer Passing Struct Pointers Around — When passing structs to functions, how do you decide whether or not to use a pointer? Preslav has some solid criteria inspired by the principles of domain-driven design that may give you a new, more maintainable approach.

Preslav Rachev

Go is Not Java — If you're in the mood for a bit of a rant, this might scratch that itch. The post also contends that, per the creator of object orientation, Go may be even more OO than Java or C++.. (a topic David Wickes also wrote about recently).

Jarrod Roberson

Tokens for LLMs: Byte Pair Encoding in Go — Tokens are fundamental to LLMs, so understanding how they’re encoded and decoded can help you better understand how LLMs work too.

Eli Bendersky

Konf 1.1: A Flexible Configuration Loader — Load config settings from all sorts of places, from local sources like files and environment variables, to platforms like S3, AWS Parameter Store, AWS AppConfig, and GCP Secret Manager. v1.1 adds support for change notification via AWS SNS, GCP PubSub, and Azure Service Bus.

Kuisong Tong

Gohalt: A General Purpose Throttling Library — You could use this to build throttling pipelines, rate limiters, etc. We’re digging the gopher logo on this one. Now with Go 1.22 support.

Kostiantyn Masliuk

Securing a Golang App with OAuth — This tutorial will show you how to use OAuth to authenticate users in a Golang application. Happy coding!

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gorush: A Push Notification Server, Built on Gin — Supports APNS (Apple Push Notification Service), Firebase, and HMS Push Server (Huawei).

Bo-Yi Wu

Gotenberg 8.5: Docker-Powered Stateless API for Creating PDF Files — A Go-powered system that offers a developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files. GitHub repo.

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Awesome Ebitengine: A Curated List of Ebitengine Resources — Ebitengine is a popular, powerful 2D graphics and gamedev API for Go and this list is packed with games written with it, libraries to use with it, and more.

Artem Sedykh

goread 1.6.5: A Terminal-Based RSS/Atom Feed Reader — Built using the Bubble Tea TUI framework. You can drop https://golangweekly.com/rss into it if you want to test it out ;-)

Adam Piaseczny