Some Amazing Go Reads
One Billion Row Challenge in Golang - From 95s to 1.96s
🌐 r2p.dev • ⌨ Practical • ⏳ 20 min
How slow is slow? This is an interesting programming exercise: develop an app to read 1 billion lines and aggregate information. Each line has the temperature of a station name, and you need to calculate and print the min, mean, and max temperature of each station. Good practice on how to optimise Go code to use fewer resources and run faster.
The 8 best Go web frameworks for 2025
🌐 blog.logrocket.com • ⌨ Practical • ⏳ 8 min
One of the things I like about Go is that you don’t need a framework to develop code. Unlike some other languages, where you need not only a good understanding of the language and standard library, but also a complicated framework. That said, Go has some amazing web frameworks, which this post briefly goes over and lists their pros and cons.
Ten commandments of Go
🌐 bitfieldconsulting.com • ⌨ Practical • ⏳ 6 min
If you read “One Billion Row Challenge in Golang” or how to write faster Go code, it’s now a great time to read about how to write cleaner code. This article shares key principles for writing clean and effective Go code.
Two phrases that resonate with me a lot from this article:
When in doubt, follow the principle of least surprise. Strive for glanceability. Be straightforward. Be simple. Be obvious. Be boring.
key to obviousness-oriented programming is avoiding magic. Explicit is better than implicit. Don’t use init functions: they’re magical. Don’t write packages that have side effects when they’re imported.
Tool Time
🚀 github.com/jarcoal/httpmock — A library that makes it super easy to set up mocks for HTTP requests. You can register responders for specific URLs, handle different request methods, and even use regular expressions for more complex patterns.
🌟 github.com/alecthomas/chroma — A handy syntax highlighter. It takes your code and transforms it into nicely formatted HTML or ANSI-colored text
🌎 github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n — If you want to internationalise your program,
go-i18ncan help. It has support for message files and pluralised strings in 200+ langauges.
P.S.:
I’ve been a bit quiet with Golang Nugget over the past few weeks — had some personal stuff to take care of that pulled me away from reading and exploring.
But I’m back now 🙂 and looking forward to getting back into the groove with regular weekly posts. Thanks for sticking around!
