Gopher Reading List

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Here is a reading list of blog posts about Go. It aspires to include only the most useful and relevant material that anyone writing Go should eventually read. By definition, the list is a work in progress.

Rather than being comprehensive, the list is a curated selection fixed at 200 entries.

Go is growing fast and so are the number of blog posts about it. If an interested reader knows of a great post not on this list, please open an issue with a link to the post. Not every blog post linked in an issue will make its way into the list. Nonetheless, the issue list (both open and closed) is a good source of additional reading material.

NOTE: Any new additions will need to replace something else on the list to keep it at a fixed length.

Start Here

• Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering
• An Intro to Go for non-Go developers
• How to Write Go Code
• A Tour of Go
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Go by Example
• Go 101

See Go Books for a list of books, both free and paid.

Beginner

Some basics

• Understand Go pointers in less than 800 words or your money back
• Don't fear the pointer
• Channel Axioms
• Golang channels tutorial
• Common Gotchas in Go
• 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
• Slices from the ground up
• 6 Tips for Using Strings in Go
• Go Defer Simplified with Practical Visuals
• How to Use Go Interfaces

Worth reading, again and again

• Effective Go
• Visualizing Concurrency in Go
• Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go
• Arrays, slices (and strings): The mechanics of 'append'

Organization and Style

• Organizing a Go module
• Practical Go: Real world advice for writing maintainable Go programs
• Less is exponentially more
• Go Proverbs
• Code Review Comments
• Google Go Style Guide
• Idiomatic Go
• Error handling and Go
• Working with Errors in Go 1.13
• Simple Go project layout with modules
• Structuring Tests in Go
• Standard Package Layout
• Packages as layers, not groups
• Structuring Applications in Go
• Style guideline for Go packages
• Package names
• What's in a name (slides)

Web

• Creating My First Web Application with Go
• Making a RESTful JSON API in Go
• Serving static files and web apps in Go
• An Intro To Templates in Go
• JSON APIs Are Just Web Applications
• Writing middleware in #golang and how Go makes it so much fun
• Accessing data in Go
• How to Use //go:embed

Concurrency

• Learning Go's Concurrency Through Illustrations
• Go’s append is not always thread safe

Go Modules

• Introduction to Go modules
• Using Go Modules
• Modules Part 01: Why And What

Intermediate

Code Design

• What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong
• Go best practices, six years in
• Aspects of a good Go library
• Solid Go Design
• Go for Industrial Programming
• What “accept interfaces, return structs” means in Go
• Pitfalls of context values and how to avoid or mitigate them in Go
• How to organize the go struct, in order to save memory
• Loose Coupling in Go lang
• Self-referential functions and the design of options
• Functional Options for Friendly APIs
• Functional Options on Steroids
• Error handling in Upspin
• errors.Join ❤️ defer
• Contexts and structs

Concurrency

• Concurrency Patterns
• Stopping goroutines
• Make Ctrl+C cancel the context.Context
• How to correctly use context.Context in Go 1.7
• Using contexts to avoid leaking goroutines
• Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation
• Tutorial: Synchronizing State with Mutexes in Go
• Context and Cancellation of goroutines
• Dancing with Go's Mutexes
• GoRoutines, Channels, and Proper Exits
• How to Block Forever in Go
• Mutex Profile
• Sane Concurrency with Go
• Error handling patterns in Go
• Does the race detector catch all data races?
• Interesting ways of using Go channels
• Code Review Checklist: Go concurrency
• The Pros of Conds

Testing

• An Introduction to Testing in Go
• 5 simple tips and tricks for writing unit tests in #golang
• 5 Advanced Testing Techniques in Go
• Interfaces and Composition for Effective Unit Testing in Golang
• Go Testing Technique: Testing JSON HTTP Requests
• Testing Your (HTTP) Handlers in Go
• Learn Go with tests
• Lesser-Known Features of Go Test
• When Writing Unit Tests, Don’t Use Mocks
• Property-based testing in Go
• Functional table-driven tests in Go

Web

• Go for Cloud
• Exposing Go on the Internet
• The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts
• HTTP(S) Proxy in Golang in less than 100 lines of code
• Write a Kubernetes-ready service from zero step-by-step
• A brief intro of TCP keep-alive in Go’s HTTP implementation
• Build a Web Crawler in Go
• Your pprof is showing: IPv4 scans reveal exposed net/http/pprof endpoints:
• HTTP Request Contexts & Go
• Using Object-Oriented Web Servers in Go
• Don't use Go's default HTTP client (in production)
• Writing an API Client in Go
• Seeking around in an HTTP object
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