Another year and another Gophercon, this time in sunny San Diego! As usual, there were a lot of high quality talks across a breadth of subjects. I highly recommend browsing through the Gophercon videos on YouTube, but I'll highlight what I thought were the interesting bits below. The last year

Something that Go does very well is multi-platform support. You can build a binary for just about any system without much hassle. On a single build machine, you can build binaries for Windows, macOS, and many flavors of Linux. All that is required is to change the GOOS and GOARCH

Recently, I had the need to process a near infinite number of messages asynchronously. You can't just throw all the messages into separate goroutines when there are that many of them and more incoming. One solution is to use some sort of worker pool to manage the number of concurrent

I had the privilege again this year to fly out to Denver and attend Gophercon, the premier gathering of "gophers" (people who program in Go). It's a lot of fun and I learn something every time. After spending the weekend hanging out around town with my wife, enjoying