Listmonk VS wild-workouts-go-ddd-example

I have mainly name and email fields in the newsletter signup and there is no verification. Then I manually blacklisted all the bots in the email service Listmonk.

Listmonk – An open-source alternative to Mailchimp just released version 3. It’s great as a stand-alone newsletter. Also seems like a low lift for capturing leads for side projects.

Here is another great self hosted solution that I came across. Really high performance (written in Go). No affiliation but well done open source product.

https://listmonk.app

When I searched for this I had a very hard time finding a right answer because all the results were SEO blogs advertising their newsletter services (Mailchimp, Convertkit, etc.), which is not the same thing.

So I wrote this overview covering all the options I found. Additional input is welcome.

Even though Listmonk seems like the best free & open source option, there aren't many guides for it and the documentation is quite limited. So [I've been having trouble getting it running on a CentOS server](https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/issues/1004#issuecomment-1...).

It's a shame that it seems to be used by thousands of people but almost no one bothers to create guides or improve the docs.

Take a look at: https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/wild-workouts-go-ddd-exampl...

(I’m one of the authors.)

This project shows how to apply more complex patterns popular in business applications while staying true to the Go ideas, and not copying them blindly from Java.

In the Go community, you’ll often hear people say „just keep things simple” beats all patterns and is all you need. This may be true if you write a CLI tool or a small library, but if you have a team maintaining a big application, some patterns are super helpful.

Here is a reference implementation by the same authors of the blog post you referenced: https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/wild-workouts-go-ddd-example/tree/master/internal/trainer.

In this case I recommend Three Dots Labs blog and Ardan Labs courses and blog posts.

As a rather new developer, I'm ashamed to admit that I struggle with this. I've seen the Dave Cheney writeup about it and I agree with your reasoning, but sometimes I end up in situations like this, where they wrote a server utility, put it into the common package and imported it into the services that need it. The issue I have is the organization of it all because the folder structure seems to make a clear separation of the core services from the utility package. If you have any ideas or tips to help avoid it, that'd be awesome!

Clean architecture is not tied to some specific paradigm. It's a way of thinking about programs that is common to almost every mature developer. Many developers use it without even knowing the name - they just came to it by themselves through many tries and errors. There is a good free book about using it in Go, called Go with the Domain if you interested.

Wild Workouts should match your needs: https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/wild-workouts-go-ddd-example

For Event-Driven / DDD / Microservice projects, take a look at this Github org https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs and their blog detailing the techniques used https://threedots.tech .

Nice job at taking a stab at DDD in Go! You may want to check out https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/wild-workouts-go-ddd-example for some inspiration and learning around DDD and Go.