Introduction

Concurrency is one of Go’s superpowers, enabling developers to run tasks in parallel using goroutines. A goroutine is launched with the go keyword followed by a function call, as shown below:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func say(s string) {
	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
		fmt.Println(s)
	}
}

func main() {
	go say("world")
	say("hello")
}

Go playground link to the example

This simple example prints “hello” and “world” concurrently. However, the Go language specification notes that if a function called in a goroutine returns values, those values are discarded. This raises a question: how can we capture and use return values from a goroutine?

Introduction

Concurrency is a core strength of Go, and one of its standout principles is “Share By Communicating.” Unlike traditional approaches that rely on shared memory and locks, Go encourages developers to share data between goroutines by passing it through channels. This method simplifies concurrent programming and helps avoid common issues like race conditions, making your code safer and easier to maintain.

Why does this matter? In many languages, concurrent programs share memory directly, requiring locks to prevent conflicts. This can lead to complex, error-prone code, think deadlocks or subtle bugs that only appear under specific conditions. Go flips this on its head: instead of locking memory, you communicate data through channels, ensuring only one goroutine accesses it at a time by design.

Introduction

Concurrency is one of Go’s superpowers, enabling developers to run tasks in parallel using goroutines. A goroutine is launched with the go keyword followed by a function call, as shown below:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func say(s string) {
	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
		fmt.Println(s)
	}
}

func main() {
	go say("world")
	say("hello")
}

Go playground link to the example

This simple example prints “hello” and “world” concurrently. However, the Go language specification notes that if a function called in a goroutine returns values, those values are discarded. This raises a question: how can we capture and use return values from a goroutine?

Introduction

Concurrency is one of Go’s superpowers, enabling developers to run tasks in parallel using goroutines. A goroutine is launched with the go keyword followed by a function call, as shown below:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func say(s string) {
	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
		fmt.Println(s)
	}
}

func main() {
	go say("world")
	say("hello")
}

Go playground link to the example

This simple example prints “hello” and “world” concurrently. However, the Go language specification notes that if a function called in a goroutine returns values, those values are discarded. This raises a question: how can we capture and use return values from a goroutine?

Introduction

Concurrency is a core strength of Go, and one of its standout principles is “Share By Communicating.” Unlike traditional approaches that rely on shared memory and locks, Go encourages developers to share data between goroutines by passing it through channels. This method simplifies concurrent programming and helps avoid common issues like race conditions, making your code safer and easier to maintain.

Why does this matter? In many languages, concurrent programs share memory directly, requiring locks to prevent conflicts. This can lead to complex, error-prone code, think deadlocks or subtle bugs that only appear under specific conditions. Go flips this on its head: instead of locking memory, you communicate data through channels, ensuring only one goroutine accesses it at a time by design.

Introduction

Go 1.18 added the workspace mode to Go, allowing you to work on multiple modules simultaneously without having to edit the go.mod file.

Module is a folder having go.mod file

Earlier if you are working with multiple modules the flow would look like below

1. Make the change in module1.
2. Update the go.mod file of module2 with replace directive for your local, unpublished changes.
3. Make the changes in module2.
4. Before pushing to remote remember to remove the replace from the go.mod.

What workspace allows you to do is allow you to access the changes from module1 in module2 without updating the go.mod files. Thus allowing developers to fully focus on writing code, only when you are going to complete your local development flow and are going to push to remote, we need to update the version tag of module1 in module2’s go.mod file.

Introduction

Concurrency is one of Go’s superpowers, enabling developers to run tasks in parallel using goroutines. A goroutine is launched with the go keyword followed by a function call, as shown below:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func say(s string) {
	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
		fmt.Println(s)
	}
}

func main() {
	go say("world")
	say("hello")
}

Go playground link to the example

This simple example prints “hello” and “world” concurrently. However, the Go language specification notes that if a function called in a goroutine returns values, those values are discarded. This raises a question: how can we capture and use return values from a goroutine?

Introduction

Concurrency is one of Go’s superpowers, enabling developers to run tasks in parallel using goroutines. A goroutine is launched with the go keyword followed by a function call, as shown below:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

func say(s string) {
	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
		fmt.Println(s)
	}
}

func main() {
	go say("world")
	say("hello")
}

Go playground link to the example

This simple example prints “hello” and “world” concurrently. However, the Go language specification notes that if a function called in a goroutine returns values, those values are discarded. This raises a question: how can we capture and use return values from a goroutine?

Introduction

Concurrency is a core strength of Go, and one of its standout principles is “Share By Communicating.” Unlike traditional approaches that rely on shared memory and locks, Go encourages developers to share data between goroutines by passing it through channels. This method simplifies concurrent programming and helps avoid common issues like race conditions, making your code safer and easier to maintain.

Why does this matter? In many languages, concurrent programs share memory directly, requiring locks to prevent conflicts. This can lead to complex, error-prone code, think deadlocks or subtle bugs that only appear under specific conditions. Go flips this on its head: instead of locking memory, you communicate data through channels, ensuring only one goroutine accesses it at a time by design.

Introduction

Go 1.18 added the workspace mode to Go, allowing you to work on multiple modules simultaneously without having to edit the go.mod file.

Module is a folder having go.mod file

Earlier if you are working with multiple modules the flow would look like below

1. Make the change in module1.
2. Update the go.mod file of module2 with replace directive for your local, unpublished changes.
3. Make the changes in module2.
4. Before pushing to remote remember to remove the replace from the go.mod.

What workspace allows you to do is allow you to access the changes from module1 in module2 without updating the go.mod files. Thus allowing developers to fully focus on writing code, only when you are going to complete your local development flow and are going to push to remote, we need to update the version tag of module1 in module2’s go.mod file.

Introduction

Go 1.18 added the workspace mode to Go, allowing you to work on multiple modules simultaneously without having to edit the go.mod file.

Module is a folder having go.mod file

Earlier if you are working with multiple modules the flow would look like below

1. Make the change in module1.
2. Update the go.mod file of module2 with replace directive for your local, unpublished changes.
3. Make the changes in module2.
4. Before pushing to remote remember to remove the replace from the go.mod.

What workspace allows you to do is allow you to access the changes from module1 in module2 without updating the go.mod files. Thus allowing developers to fully focus on writing code, only when you are going to complete your local development flow and are going to push to remote, we need to update the version tag of module1 in module2’s go.mod file.

In this post we are going to look at

• What are Data Structures and Abstract Data Types
• Why do we need them
• How can we create our own simple ADT

Let’s get started

What are Data Structures and Abstract Data Types and Why do we need them

In any program there are lots of operations being performed ranging from simple addition to complex ones. These operations have a very basic thing in common regardless of their scale.

In this post we are going to look at

• What are Data Structures and Abstract Data Types
• Why do we need them
• How can we create our own simple ADT

Let’s get started

What are Data Structures and Abstract Data Types and Why do we need them

In any program there are lots of operations being performed ranging from simple addition to complex ones. These operations have a very basic thing in common regardless of their scale.

Number Systems

Here we are going to take a look at the following Number systems which are used extensively in computer science

• Decimal
• Binary
• Octal
• Hexadecimal

Introduction

Basically, all the systems are used for counting, thus allowing humans to measure things.

Every system that we are going to see will have a radix/base.

Radix / Base - the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers [1]

In this post we are going to look at

• What are Data Structures and Abstract Data Types
• Why do we need them
• How can we create our own simple ADT

Let’s get started

What are Data Structures and Abstract Data Types and Why do we need them

In any program there are lots of operations being performed ranging from simple addition to complex ones. These operations have a very basic thing in common regardless of their scale.

Number Systems

Here we are going to take a look at the following Number systems which are used extensively in computer science

• Decimal
• Binary
• Octal
• Hexadecimal

Introduction

Basically, all the systems are used for counting, thus allowing humans to measure things.

Every system that we are going to see will have a radix/base.

Radix / Base - the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers [1]

Introduction

In this world of information as a software engineer we have some great resources that guide us and provide us with information required for our daily activities.

Some of the references available to us are:

• stackoverflow.com
• medium.com
• Engineering blogs written by an organization or by an individual
• Github Repositories
• Recently some LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard etc.
• Youtube/Tutorials/MOOC
• Private Groups.
• And many more

Now there is one specific resource that I missed out that is the Official Documentation for the piece of software in use. This post is all about my observations in the recent years.

Introduction

In this world of information as a software engineer we have some great resources that guide us and provide us with information required for our daily activities.

Some of the references available to us are:

• stackoverflow.com
• medium.com
• Engineering blogs written by an organization or by an individual
• Github Repositories
• Recently some LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard etc.
• Youtube/Tutorials/MOOC
• Private Groups.
• And many more

Now there is one specific resource that I missed out that is the Official Documentation for the piece of software in use. This post is all about my observations in the recent years.

Introduction

Truth tables are the foundation of boolean algebra and are required for logical reasoning and software implementation.

All the if else statements we write, irrespective of the programming languages, use boolean algebra.

One such scenario became the inspiration for this particular short post

The Initial Details

To display some orders on a page where users have access to multiple filters,

such as

• search box - to search the order directly using some identifier
• date range filter - to get orders with a specific date range
• status - to get orders with a specific status

and many others

Introduction

In this world of information as a software engineer we have some great resources that guide us and provide us with information required for our daily activities.

Some of the references available to us are:

• stackoverflow.com
• medium.com
• Engineering blogs written by an organization or by an individual
• Github Repositories
• Recently some LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard etc.
• Youtube/Tutorials/MOOC
• Private Groups.
• And many more

Now there is one specific resource that I missed out that is the Official Documentation for the piece of software in use. This post is all about my observations in the recent years.

Introduction

Truth tables are the foundation of boolean algebra and are required for logical reasoning and software implementation.

All the if else statements we write, irrespective of the programming languages, use boolean algebra.

One such scenario became the inspiration for this particular short post

The Initial Details

To display some orders on a page where users have access to multiple filters,

such as

• search box - to search the order directly using some identifier
• date range filter - to get orders with a specific date range
• status - to get orders with a specific status

and many others

Introduction

PostgreSQL provides us with a datatype to store JSON data. This datatype can be helpful in lots of situations giving us a way to store some dynamic data.

Further PostgreSQL provides us with two types for storing JSON data

1. json
2. jsonb

They both take almost identical set of inputs but the major difference is that in the efficiency.

The json data type stores the exact copy of the input text which the processing functions must reparse on each execution. On the other hand jsonb data is stored in the decompressed binary format which makes it slightly slower to input due to the added overhead of conversion, but significantly faster to process since no reparsing is needed.

Introduction

Imagine we have a long query which has a lots of conditions, and many of the conditions has some kind of comparisions with literals instead of some other record value.

Example:

SELECT * FROM users u where (u.name='some name' or u.age=12 or u.email='qwe@qwe.qwe');

For example sake we are taking the name, age and email as constants.

Imagine these literal values used multiple times in the query. We will have very untidy query.

Introduction

PostgreSQL provides us with a datatype to store JSON data. This datatype can be helpful in lots of situations giving us a way to store some dynamic data.

Further PostgreSQL provides us with two types for storing JSON data

1. json
2. jsonb

They both take almost identical set of inputs but the major difference is that in the efficiency.

The json data type stores the exact copy of the input text which the processing functions must reparse on each execution. On the other hand jsonb data is stored in the decompressed binary format which makes it slightly slower to input due to the added overhead of conversion, but significantly faster to process since no reparsing is needed.

Introduction

Imagine we have a long query which has a lots of conditions, and many of the conditions has some kind of comparisions with literals instead of some other record value.

Example:

SELECT * FROM users u where (u.name='some name' or u.age=12 or u.email='qwe@qwe.qwe');

For example sake we are taking the name, age and email as constants.

Imagine these literal values used multiple times in the query. We will have very untidy query.

Number Systems

Here we are going to take a look at the following Number systems which are used extensively in computer science

• Decimal
• Binary
• Octal
• Hexadecimal

Introduction

Basically, all the systems are used for counting, thus allowing humans to measure things.

Every system that we are going to see will have a radix/base.

Radix / Base - the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers [1]