A Gopher's Reading List

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• Go Koans
• A Tour of Go
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Go by Example
• Go Bootcamp

Beginner

Some basics

• Slice Tricks
• 5 Tips for Using Strings in Go
• Struct, Map, Array and Slice
• Understand Go pointers in less than 800 words or your money back | Dave Cheney
• Tutorial: Go (Golang) Pointers in 5 Minutes | Giant Flying Saucer
• Pointers
• Golang channels tutorial | Alexander Guz's blog
• (Now You're) Thinking With Channels
• Channel Axioms | Dave Cheney
• Curious Channels
• Understanding Go panic output
• How to avoid Go gotchas · divan's blog
• 50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs

Worth reading, again and again

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

Organization and Style

• Code Review Comments
• command center: Less is exponentially more
• Go Proverbs
• Idiomatic Go
• Errors
• Go's Error Handling is Elegant
• Effective error handling in Go. - Morsing's blog
• Alternative Patterns for Method Overloading in Go
• Five Suggestions for Setting up a Go project
• Structuring Tests in Go
• Organizing Go Code
• The anatomy of a Go project - darian.af
• Standard Package Layout
• time in go
• The empty struct
• For Range Semantics - GoingGo - Ardan Labs
• How I Learned To Quit Worrying And Love Go's Interfaces
• How to use interfaces in Go
• A Guide to Types and Casting in Golang : Programming and Development Blog | Stone River eLearning

The Web

• Creating My First Web Application with Go
• Making a RESTful JSON API in Go - The New Stack
• How to Serve Static Files with Golang
• An Intro To Templates in Go - Contextual Encoding
• Elliot Chance - Working With JSON in Go
• Making concurrent HTTP requests in Go programming language - Jinchuriki
• Golang http handlers as middleware - @capotej
• A TCP Echo Server in Go (Golang) | Jim Lawless' Blog
• HTTP File Upload and Download with Go - zupzup
• Simple Golang HTTP Request Context Example · Paul Fortin
• Go and JSON - Eager Blog
• Writing HTTP Middleware in Go

Intermediate

• Five things that make Go fast
• Go Walkthrough: bytes + strings packages
• Go's net/context and http.Handler – Joe Shaw
• Stopping goroutines #golang
• Working with Files in Go | DevDungeon
• Golang: interface{}, type assertions and type switches
• Datetime Parsing with Go · Simon Taranto
• Golang: Working with Gzip and Tar
• Crossing Streams: a Love Letter to io.Reader
• Variadic functions in Go
• Ensuring Go interface satisfaction at compile-time
• Concurrency Patterns: Golang
• Testing Web Apps in Go | Mark J. Berger
• An Introduction to Testing in Go | TutorialEdge.net
• 5 simple tips and tricks for writing unit tests in #golang
• Go gotcha: newbie or ninja?
• Style guideline for Go packages · Go, the unwritten parts
• Go best practices, six years in
• Solid Go Design
• The package level logger anti-pattern
• GopherAcademy - Conferences, Training, and Community
• 5 Advanced Testing Techniques in Go · Segment Blog
• What “accept interfaces, return structs” means in Go
• Aspects of a good Go library – Jack Lindamood – Medium
• Reading files in Go — an overview
• HTTP(S) Proxy in Golang in less than 100 lines of code
• Write a Kubernetes-ready service from zero step-by-step GopherAcademy
• How to not use an http-router in go
• Ways to limit concurrent resource use - Pocket Gophers
• Make Ctrl+C cancel the context.Context – Mat Ryer – Medium
• Go’s std net/http is all you need … right? – Dean Karn – Medium
• Cancelling Multiple Goroutines
• The Cult of Go Test
• Unofficial Go FAQ
• Pitfalls of context values and how to avoid or mitigate them in Go
• Go tooling essentials · Go, the unwritten parts
• Profiling Go Programs - The Go Blog
• How to correctly use context.Context in Go 1.7 – Medium
• Using contexts to avoid leaking goroutines · go bits
• Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation - The Go Blog
• Gopher Puzzlers
• Structuring Applications for Growth
• Tutorial: Synchronizing State with Mutexes in Go
• Context
• Successful Go Program Design, 6 Years On
• research!rsc: Go Data Structures
• The complete guide to Go net/http timeouts
• A brief intro of TCP keep-alive in Go’s HTTP implementation | Nan Xiao's Blog
• Go: Marshal and Unmarshal JSON with time and URL data - Ukiah Smith
• Advanced Go Tips And Tricks | Tit Petrič
• How To Write Router Tests in Go — Tapjoy Engineering
• Go Tooling in Action — Google Cloud Platform — Community — Medium
• Writing a Data Mapper in Go without an ORM
• 10 things you (probably) don't know about Go
• Go Concurrency Patterns: Context - The Go Blog
• HTTP Request Contexts & Go · go, web, go
• Interfaces and Composition for Effective Unit Testing in Golang
• Go Testing Technique: Testing JSON HTTP Requests — Medium
• Acceptance Testing Go Web Applications with Cookies
• Using Object-Oriented Web Servers in Go - via @codeship | via @codeship
• Testing Your (HTTP) Handlers in Go · go, web, go
• Practical Persistence in Go: Organising Database Access
• Handle HTTP Request Errors in Go @ Alex Pliautau's Blog
• Your pprof is showing: IPv4 scans reveal exposed net/http/pprof endpoints:
• Golang slices gotcha · allegro.tech
• Always Be Closing
• Go: Timeout Commands with os/exec CommandContext
• TechnoSophos: Go Quickly - Converting Character Encodings In Golang
• Golang: pass by pointer vs pass by value
• Don'€™t defer Close() on writable files
• Gracefully terminate a program in Go | Alexander Guz's blog
• Context and Cancellation of goroutines - http://dahernan.github.io
• There is no pass-by-reference in Go | Dave Cheney
• Error handling patterns in Go
• How to Block Forever in Go
• How to ship production-grade Go - O'Reilly Media
• Using Functions Inside Go Templates - Calhoun.io
• Go json.Decoder Considered Harmful
• Self-referential functions and the design of options
• Go Microservices blog series, part 1. | Callista Enterprise
• Configuring Go Apps with TOML - Benaiah Mischenko
• Serving Multiple Sites from One Go Process · zikes.me blog
• Methods, Interfaces and Embedded Types in Go - GoingGo - Ardan Labs
• Implementing UDP vs TCP in Golang - Mina Andrawos
• Testing Your (HTTP) Handlers in Go
• Dancing with Go's Mutexes
• GoRoutines, Channels, and Proper Exits - Rabarar's Blog
• Use sync.WaitGroup in Golang | Nan Xiao's Blog
• Logging, interfaces, and allocation · Don't Panic
• Building High Performance APIs In Go Using gRPC And Protocol Buffers
• Testing concurrent code in Golang - JS Blog
• Loose Coupling in Go lang | 8th Light
• Compile-time assertions in Go · Don't Panic
• Unit Testing Golang HTTP Middleware
• Don't use Go€'s default HTTP client (in production)
• Writing an API Client in Go GopherAcademy
• Mutex Profile
• Function Types in Go (golang)
• Examples For Using io.Pipe in Go - zupzup
• Lesser-Known Features of Go Test - Blog | Splice
• Reducing boilerplate with go generate GopherAcademy
• Sane Concurrency with Go | Mozilla Services
• Writing worker queues, in Go
• Goroutine Tracing
• Understanding Go Lang Memory Usage
• Profiling Go
• Job Queues in Go - OpsDash
• Diagnostics - The Go Programming Language
• Seeking around in an HTTP object GopherAcademy

Advanced

• Debugging a potential deadlock in Go
• Go's work-stealing scheduler · Go, the unwritten parts
• Advanced Encoding and Decoding Techniques
• Custom JSON Marshalling in Go · Choly's Blog
• Optimized abs() for int64 in Go
• Mutable strings in Golang – Koki – Medium
• unsafe.Pointer and system calls GopherAcademy
• Minimal Perfect Hash Functions
• Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services · Segment Blog
• Go Assembly by Example
• Go Experience Report for Generics: Google metrics API
• A Million WebSockets and Go – freeCodeCamp
• Address Alignments in Go
• How to Optimize Garbage Collection in Go | Cockroach Labs
• The Go scheduler - Morsing's blog
• Golang's Real-time GC in Theory and Practice - Pusher Blog
• Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns - The Go Blog
• Stateful locks in Go - Tit Petric
• Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7 · Paul Smith
• Managing Syscall Overhead with crypto/rand · Scott Mansfield
• Multiplexing Golang Channels to Maximize Throughput | The MongoDB Engineering Journal
• allegro.tech - Writing a very fast cache service with millions of entries in Go
• Golang lock-free values with atomic.Value
• Profiling memory usage of a Go app | Vince Yuan's technical blogs
• The Go netpoller - Morsing's blog
• Locking in crypto/rand
• Anatomy of a function call in Go
• Advanced Reflection with Go at HashiCorp GopherAcademy
• Manual Memory Management in Go
• Text normalization in Go - The Go Blog
• go-fuzz github.com/arolek/ase – Damian Gryski
• Allocation Efficiency in High-Performance Go Services