Next month I'll start working at a company as a Backend Developer and will be mostly using Go. How can I better prepare myself?

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  • go-structure-examples

    Examples for my talk on structuring go apps

  • So here’s where I normally tell people to start off: check out this video and this repo in regards to the main 6 ways of architecting your Go applications.

  • go-c2dmc

    A Go package for converting RGB and other color formats/colorspaces into DMC thread colors (DMC color name and floss number)

  • As far as projects to study go, I’ll start off with a shameless plug of two Go packages I’ve written, myself. This one is for converting between RGB (and other color space formats) to the nearest matching DMC thread color. This one is admittedly an extremely unidiomatic package (it’s completely opposite of how you should do things in Go) for supporting dynamic queries in Go without headaches or pre-defining “model” structs to hold each row of your query results. It’s something that can be useful, but it’s also built to showcase making the language work for a use case it wasn’t originally meant to support. If you wanna take a look at them, feel free. Also, I suggest looking at the testify repo. It’s an EXTREMELY popular testing library, and it’s also structured well.

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  • dynaQ

    An extension for Go's sql package in the standard library to support dynamic queries directly from the database, as well as on individual database connections

  • As far as projects to study go, I’ll start off with a shameless plug of two Go packages I’ve written, myself. This one is for converting between RGB (and other color space formats) to the nearest matching DMC thread color. This one is admittedly an extremely unidiomatic package (it’s completely opposite of how you should do things in Go) for supporting dynamic queries in Go without headaches or pre-defining “model” structs to hold each row of your query results. It’s something that can be useful, but it’s also built to showcase making the language work for a use case it wasn’t originally meant to support. If you wanna take a look at them, feel free. Also, I suggest looking at the testify repo. It’s an EXTREMELY popular testing library, and it’s also structured well.

  • Testify

    A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

  • As far as projects to study go, I’ll start off with a shameless plug of two Go packages I’ve written, myself. This one is for converting between RGB (and other color space formats) to the nearest matching DMC thread color. This one is admittedly an extremely unidiomatic package (it’s completely opposite of how you should do things in Go) for supporting dynamic queries in Go without headaches or pre-defining “model” structs to hold each row of your query results. It’s something that can be useful, but it’s also built to showcase making the language work for a use case it wasn’t originally meant to support. If you wanna take a look at them, feel free. Also, I suggest looking at the testify repo. It’s an EXTREMELY popular testing library, and it’s also structured well.

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