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Jun 16, 2025 • Go Programming

Why Use Golang: 9 Compelling Reasons for Your Next Project

Wondering **why use Golang**? Explore nine practical reasons—speed, concurrency, tooling, and more—that make Go a top choice for modern back-end systems.

#go #golang #why use golang

Jun 16, 2025 • Go Programming

Understanding Golang Context: Cancellation, Timeouts, and Deadlines

Deep-dive into Golang's context package to manage cancellation, timeouts, deadlines, and request-scoped data across goroutines with practical examples and best practices.

#go #golang #context

Jun 9, 2025 • Go Programming

Mastering Time in Go: From Basics to Best Practices

Explore how Go's time package provides powerful tools for handling dates, durations, and timers in your applications with clear examples and practical tips.

#go #golang #time

May 23, 2025 • Go Programming

Implementing Enums in Golang: Patterns and Best Practices

Discover effective techniques for implementing type-safe enums in Go using constants, iota, custom types, and string mapping. Learn best practices for enum-like behavior in Golang.

#go #golang #enum

May 23, 2025 • Go Programming

Mastering Golang For Loop: A Comprehensive Guide

Learn how to master Go's for loop syntax with practical examples covering basic iteration, range loops, nested loops, and advanced patterns for efficient Go programming.

#go #golang #loops

May 19, 2025 • Go Programming

Exciting Features Coming in Go 1.25: What to Expect

Explore the key improvements in Go 1.25, including stable profile-guided optimization, enhanced compiler performance, and new standard library additions for more efficient backend development.

#go #golang #go1.25

Sep 5, 2023 • Go Programming

One of The Easiest Ways to Host your Go Web App

Discover how to host Go web applications for as little as $5 per month using DigitalOcean and Docker. Learn this cost-effective, scalable deployment method with step-by-step instructions.

#go #hosting #digitalocean

Jun 9, 2022 • Go Programming

Example of how Golang generics minimize the amount of code you need to write

Explore practical examples of Go 1.18 generics in action by refactoring caching logic in a real-world application to write cleaner, more maintainable code with less duplication.

#go #generics #redis

Jul 16, 2021 • Go Programming

Concurrent Map Writing and Reading in Go, or how to deal with the data races.

Learn how to effectively handle concurrent map operations in Go using sync.Map and mutex solutions to avoid data race conditions and improve application performance.

#go #concurrent map #data race

Mar 2, 2021 • Go Programming

Ristretto - the Most Performant Concurrent Cache Library for Go

Learn how to implement Ristretto, a high-performance concurrent memory caching library for Go applications. Includes code examples comparing database access with and without caching.

#go #caching #ristretto