Recommended Open-Source Go Backend Projects for Study: Criteria Include Size, Structure, Database Usage, and Readability
Introduction
As a backend developer transitioning from beginner projects to real-world applications, you’re likely hitting a wall. Small RE
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Aug 26, 2026
One Tiny Go Binary in Front of Every Free(or not) LLM Tier (15–40MB RAM, No Database)
Guvna
Most LLM gateways sit at two extremes: TypeScript services eating hundreds of MB
of RAM to forward HTTP, or enterprise platforms that
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Aug 26, 2026
Every Service Should Be Copy-Paste
Sameness beats elegance when a machine has to reproduce the layout.
👋 I'm Anton - a software engineer working mostly in PHP/Symfony and Go, curren
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Aug 26, 2026
AI เขียน Go โบราณตลอด — JetBrains เลยทำ "กติกาการเขียน Go สมัยใหม่" ให้ agent แล้ว
📅 เขียนเมื่อ: สิงหาคม 2026 | ครอบคลุม Go 1.0–1.27
⚠️ ข้อมูลอัปเดต ณ วันที่เขียน — เวอร์ชัน/ฟีเจอร์อาจเปลี่ยนตามรอบ release ของ Go
ถ้าคุณเคยให้ AI c
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Aug 26, 2026
From One Merged PR to a Repology Page: A Termux Maintainer Roundup
A few weeks ago, running pkg show on my own phone and seeing my name next to Maintainer: felt like a fluke. It wasn't a plan — it was one feature requ
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Aug 26, 2026
Healthtech Reminder Recovery: Daily and Weekly Local Time, DST, Cron, and Queues
Short answer: Store every user's IANA timezone and next_run_at in UTC, run a periodic cron sweep for rows due at or before now, and enqueue each remin
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Aug 26, 2026
SaaS App Logging with Go — Comparing Loggly, Papertrail, Better Stack, and Custom APIs
Short answer: for a property-management SaaS that needs searchable events from a nightly data pipeline, a simple API-first collector is a sensible Log
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Aug 26, 2026
DST-Safe SaaS Payment Emails: UTC Cron, User Timezones, and Reconciliation
DST-Safe SaaS Payment Emails: UTC Cron, User Timezones, and Reconciliation
Short answer: use one UTC cron as a coarse tick, then let applic
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Aug 26, 2026
I've Built RAG Infrastructure Several Times. Last Week Was the First Time I Actually Benchmarked It.
I have a confession, and I suspect I'm not alone in it: I've built RAG infrastructure multiple times, and until last week I had never benchmarked any
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Aug 25, 2026
A New Way to Build Aggregation Pipelines in Go
This article was written by Lin Borland
Aggregation pipelines are one of the most powerful tools in MongoDB. They let you filter, reshape, compute, a
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Aug 25, 2026
Your wallet balance shouldn't be a column
Your wallet balance shouldn't be a column
Building a Ledger, #1 of 12
An agent is standing in a shop in Ikeja. She has ₦80,000 in her wall
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Aug 25, 2026
I built an agentless deploy CLI in Go because every PaaS wanted to own my server
Everything I run in production lives on one inexpensive ARM VM: a headless CMS, a club management app, two Umbraco package demos, a job portal, analyt
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Aug 25, 2026
Implementing a Read-Only MCP Server in Go for REST API Integration with AI and Future-Proofing
Introduction
Implementing a read-only MCP server in Go to integrate with a REST API and AI capabilities is a strategic move for developers
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Aug 24, 2026
Healthtech Receipt Template Governance for SMS OTP Phone Login Explained
Short answer: Let the identity team own the SMS OTP template and resend policy, let the payment domain own the order-receipt template, and make the ba
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Aug 24, 2026
Tenant-Aware Account Access in Go — Identity, Authorization, and Recovery in 2026
Short answer: treat user identity, tenant membership, and application authorization as separate records, then require every signup, login, and recover
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Aug 24, 2026
Most TCP vs UDP speed comparisons are measuring handshake overhead, not the protocols
I wanted to actually see the TCP vs UDP tradeoff instead of just reading another diagram explaining it, so I built a small tool that downloads the sam
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Aug 24, 2026
How to Isolate Media ZIP Exports — Go Multipart Storage and Signed Downloads
A large ZIP export becomes an isolation problem before it becomes a throughput problem: its multipart upload must belong to one tenant and one worker
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Aug 24, 2026
We benchmarked a security detector against 500k lines of Go. It found a real bug.
We're building deslop — rule packs that stop coding agents from
re-introducing bugs that were already fixed. One half of that is
detection: if a rule
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Aug 24, 2026
How to Receive Background Queue Jobs Securely over Public HTTPS
Short answer: use a public HTTPS push endpoint when short, inexpensive delivery latency matters more than worker control, but authenticate every reque
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Aug 24, 2026
Hunting Ghost Jobs: How an Open-Source Job Aggregator Detects Fake Postings at Scale
Hunting Ghost Jobs: How an Open-Source Job Aggregator Detects Fake Postings at Scale
The Problem Nobody Talks About
You've seen
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Aug 24, 2026