Golang Weekly - Go 1.24 arrives

Go 1.24 Released — Finally, after many months of blog posts getting excited about Go 1.24’s new features, the real deal has arrived. It’s a reasonably big release too, including a lot of updates:

• The go tool mechanism for tracking tool dependencies.
• The use of Swiss Tables to speed up map operations.
• Experimental testing/synctest package for testing concurrent code.
• The go:wasmexport directive to export functions to a WASM host.
• Support for generic type aliases, as well as weak pointers.
• A new mechanism to achieve FIPS 140-3 compliance.

Junyang Shao and the Go Team

Reduce Your Apache Kafka Costs + Ops Burden With WarpStream — WarpStream reduces Kafka costs by 80+% by eliminating disks and interzone networking fees and features zero ops auto-scaling. It runs in your private cloud and data is stored in your object storage buckets, so raw data never leaves your environment.

WarpStream sponsor

Go Slice Gotchas — “Just like any other dynamically growable container structure, slices come with a few gotchas. I don’t always remember all the rules I need to be aware of, so this is an attempt to list some of the most common mistakes I’ve made at least once.”

Redowan Delowar

We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly — Even if you wouldn’t want to do this, it’s interesting to read about the experience of a team that has.

Alex Suraci (Dagger)

OpenTelemetry: A Guide to Observability with Go — A thorough introduction with plenty of code examples.

Luca Cavallin

Eliminating Shadow Access: The Hidden Dangers of SSH and API Keys — Static keys create hidden security risks. Learn how to replace them with dynamic, identity-based access. Register now!

Teleport sponsor

sturdyc: Caching Library with Advanced Concurrency Features — “A sturdy gopher shielding data sources from rapidly incoming requests.” Designed to avoid cache stampedes and overloading in high throughput systems by providing non-blocking reads and sharded writes for minimal lock contention.

Victor Conner

go-taskflow: A Taskflow-Like DAG Task Execution Framework — A general-purpose task-parallel framework for Go, suitable for complex dependency management in concurrent tasks.

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