Go doesn’t do any magical stuff and I love that

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  • libbsd

    Discontinued BSD functions common only on BSD systems, for portability to non-BSD systems.

  • Rudderstack

    Privacy and Security focused Segment-alternative, in Golang and React

  • RudderStack (open-source event streaming, alternative to Segment) processed 1 trillion+ events last year and has 400+ integrations with different services. It would have been nightmare if it was not built in Go.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • dig

    A reflection based dependency injection toolkit for Go.

  • Ironically given Spring’s history, you do have dependency injection in Go. But you don’t need to use it unless there’s a clear benefit. Most code reviewers would be appalled if you pulled in dig into a project that didn’t need it.

  • FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

    FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition is a no-nonsense implementation of FizzBuzz made by serious businessmen for serious business purposes.

  • Spring was good back in the day when Java 5 and 6 ruled the roost and big honking frameworks were seen as an enterprise thing . I mean, we even got Enterprise FizzBuzz out of it.

  • Vert.x

    Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM

  • There are many lean, popular, non-magical libraries in Java land. (https://quarkus.io/, https://vertx.io/, etc). Spring is a monster 😱. Its like comparing Kubernetes (written in Go) with some lean framework in another lang.

  • Quarkus

    Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

  • There are many lean, popular, non-magical libraries in Java land. (https://quarkus.io/, https://vertx.io/, etc). Spring is a monster 😱. Its like comparing Kubernetes (written in Go) with some lean framework in another lang.

  • distribution

    The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content

  • The open source repository my colleague and I reference in this talk can be seen at https://github.com/distribution/distribution/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • GORM

    The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly

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