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I receive Chris Shepherd and we talk about gRPC in Go. If you're building systems with lots of micro-services, gRPC is a good way to provide strong contracts between your services and improve communications.Links:Chris on TwitterThe Buf CLIExample protobuf registryThe best way to support this show, other than talking about it, is by purchasing my online courses on Go: Build SaaS apps in Go and Build a Google Analytics in Go. Here's a direct link with a special discount for the pod listeners.

This episode was supposed to be focussing on templ, the tempalte library, but as I was going in details I found it hard not to explain the back story of why I started looking for something to help html/template be more "fun" to build rapid side projects, you know, CRUD heavy web application.Links:templ: https://templ.guide/The lib I forgot the name during the episode: https://github.com/Masterminds/sprigIf you'd like to support this show the best way is to puchase my courses, I've one call Build SaaS apps in Go and another one called Build a Google Analytics in Go. Here's a direct discount for listener of this show.

Quick solo episode on TDD and when I experienced it was used best and when I personally not use it but use an approach of writing a bit of code, than tests, thant another bit of code, etc.Buying my courses is the way to support this show, here's a direct discount for listeners.

I chatted with Matt Boyle about debugging Go code. Matt is creating a course about this topic and discussing debugging as a tool you may add to your toolbelt.LinksThe Ultimate Guide to Debugging With GoDomain-Driven Design with GolangMatt on Twitter aka XGoland Insiders (Go Twitter community)As always, if you'd like to support this podcast the best way is to purchase my courses / talk about them. I have 2 courses on Go and here's a direct discount for podcast listeners.

I believe we can do better regarding software engineer interviews and this entire process (also including onboarding). I think companies that will be mediocre at those two aspects will have a hard time with younger programmers, which I fully support.

Iterators are going to be useful to process large amount of data without having to load an entire slice or maps in memory but instead create iterators that can be used from a for item := range myIterators().If you'd like to support this show and/or are interested in Go courses I have, here's a direct discount link specially for listeners of this show.

Something absurd happened in 2024 for one of my consulting client's production web application, and this code for a time. The time zero value is behaving differently than it has been since 2018.    Date has a value:     No date, zero valueI launched my new course Build a Google Analytics in Go, if you're interested and/or want to support this show that's how to do it.

I react to the post on the Go subreddit of last week talking about a null pointer error occuring in production for a Go program.This is the YouTube video I made.If you'd want to support this podcast, I have Go courses available for purchase here, I just launch my latest course Build a Google Analytics in Go with a 50% discount for listener of this show.

Typical reasons to use Go might sounds exciting for us used to Go, but might not be as attractive for people that haven't experienced Go yet and might not realize they have some small heritants that Go fixes/improves.I've pre-launched my new course call Build a Google Analytics in Go, as listener to this podcast you're getting a 50% off during pre-sale, the course is due to launch before the end of December.If you want to support this show, purchasing the course is the best way, also talking about it ;).

Things were very different when I started as a junior developer. This is a story of an out of the ordinary day where worked from ~9h am to 11am (the next day), the two of us that were in charge of everything at a small financial company.This one has nothing to do with Go, but I thought it was worth telling as a story.I'm soon to launch (pre-launch) my next course Build a Google Analytics in Go. If you're interested make sure to sign-up for the newsletter on my store. https://store.dominicstpierre.com/