Learn Go

by AlphaGeek

Sat, Jun 24, 2017

Learn Go

This is a terrific primer on Go. Brian Will covers a number of nuances that are good to be familiar with before writing non-trivial programs. The narrator’s style is concise and clear. Even though I am quite familiar with Go, I found it entertaining and learned a few things I did not know.

Serverless Go Web Services using AWS

by AlphaGeek

Sun, Feb 19, 2017

Go Webservices Writing web services in Go is terrific! The language is natively compiled and therefore is wicked fast; concurrency is a first class language feature in Go; and there are mature web service frameworks in Go. One of those webservice frameworks in Goa. It is a design first web services framework that generates most of the glue and scaffolding needed to run services in Go for you and lets you concentrate on the business logic.