Golang Weekly - Go's great for working with LLMs

Building LLM-Powered Applications in Go — The post describes some different approaches to creating a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) server with different toolsets: Gemini + Weaviate, LangChain, and Genkit. Go’s natural strengths seem to play well in the modern LLM/RAG arena.

Eli Bendersky

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Notes on Running Go in the Browser with WebAssembly — Eli explains the basics of calling Go from JavaScript, manipulating the DOM, using TinyGo to reduce the size of the resulting WASM binary, and running things concurrently using Web Workers.

Eli Bendersky

Using Go Instead of Bash for Scripts — Using Go to replace your scripts means only having to write the script once for all your platforms and not having to relearn OS-specific scripting languages. It’s more code, but that could be a small price to pay.

Krzysztof Kowalczyk

Cryptography in Go: AES Encryption — The last of a three-part excerpt from John’s book on Go and cryptography. You’re challenged with a couple of enciphering/deciphering problems using AES in Go, complete with John’s answers and explanations.

John Arundel

Don't Pretty Print Your API's JSON Response Body — In other words, avoid spending time and resources doing something users can do on their own.

Jamie Tanna

The TinyGo Playground (Now With More Resources) — TinyGo’s playground lets you write code with simulated hardware (like LEDs, etc.) in your browser and now has double the CPU and RAM for your testing pleasure. It can now also show power consumption estimates for your code.

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Script 0.23: Make It Easier to Write Shell-like Scripts in Go — Makes tasks like reading files, counting lines, making simple HTTP requests, and running subprocesses easier with an array of fluent chainable functions to make using Go in a scripting context a happier experience.

John Arundel

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Maelstrom: A Fast, Contained Test Runner for Multiple Languages — Currently supporting Go, Rust, and Python, this suite of tools runs tests in isolated micro-containers and claims to ‘just work’ with your existing tests. Those tests can then run on your local machine or across an entire cluster. GitHub repo.

Maelstrom

PG Back Web 0.3: A Postgres Backup System with Web Interface — A Go-powered app for bringing a bit more of a friendly user interface to Postgres backups, as well as scheduled backups, backup monitoring, and webhooks.

Luis Eduardo

FAIR: A Go Library for Serving Resources 'Fairly' — Designed to ensure fairness in resource-constrained environments by distributing said resources evenly across multiple clients.

Mihir Sathe