Applied Go

When Go and AI team up, endless possibilities emerge.

LLMs can just chat, unless you give them tools for working with files, searching the web, or... determining the current phase of the moon.

Some tasks cannot be turned into an algorithm, or only with great difficulty. Large Language Models (LLMs) to the rescue!

Fighting cross-site request forgery (CSRF) becomes easier in Go 1.25, thanks to the new cross origin protection feature.

Why should you let tracing pile up huge amounts of data when you need only a few seconds of trace output? Meet FlightRecorder.

Before Go 1.25, GOMAXPROCS defaults to the number of available physical CPU cores at app startup time. Now it takes container limits into account and checks changes periodically.

The sync/atomic package recommends using atomic types and their methods instead of the package-level atomic functions. For good reasons.

The Go team decided to put an end to error handling syntax proposals. Time for a refresher on the kind of error handling that works well since 2009.

Tests that rely on time.Sleep() to test timings can be unreliable and slow. The synctest package introduces two antidotes: fake time and