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Introduction In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the goal of understanding how our system performs by adding instrumentation. This article expands on this goal by taking...

When it comes to testing, the most common misunderstanding is the motivations of testing itself. Some folks see testing as a burden imposed from on high. Some folks see testing, or more specifically, test coverage, as a metric that determines how well they did their job. Sorry, but neither of these is true. This post will address these fallacies and give you a different perspective on testing.

Friends & fellow coders, I am overjoyed to share that part 2 has finally arrived. In this book, I share my secrets to writing high-quality Go code efficiently, effectively, and productively. It contains practical approaches to software engineering, software design, and code UX that will set you on the path to success. As you may know, in part 1, we focused on making our applications faster; part 2 focuses on making the programmer faster. As the DORA study has shown, writing high-quality code is key to delivering software quickly. For others, please pick up your copy of the book at your local Amazon website or your preferred bookstore.

I found a lot of my code (particularly the tests) had code that looked like this:   Then I was reading yet another great post from Karl Seguin and I noticed there was a much better (sexier) way....

The following content is a small extract from my latest book Beyond Effective Go – Part 1 – Achieving High-Performance Code. Slow consumers When designing function...

Have you ever added a new feature only to have another one break?  After fixing the break, something else breaks, like some kind of bug whack-a-mole? Have you ever...

Just dropping a quick update to let you know that Beyond Effective Go part two is finally going off for professional editing tomorrow! After the tremendous response to part one, I'm determined...

There seems to have been a lot of talk around me lately in relation to "dev boxes" and "testing on staging". After unsuccessfully trying to convince folks of why I think this is a bad...

In the previous post, we examined the Why and When of testing in this post, we will build on that foundation and look at How much we should be testing.

A small collection of IntelliJ tips and tricks for getting more out of your day or simply doing the same amount for work with less effort. 1. Install the IntelliJ Go plugin from here Enough said. 2....