Structured Logging in Go: A Practical Guide to log/slog
When production incidents happen, the first question is always “what went wrong?” The answer lives in your logs — but
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The Strategy Pattern in Go: Replacing Switch Statements with Interfaces
Every Go codebase has one: that function with a growing switch statement. It starts with two cases — a direct
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Test Doubles Demystified: Stubs, Spies, Mocks, and Fakes in Go
Automated tests that hit real databases, live APIs, and production file systems are slow, flaky, and expensive to maintain. The
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Mastering the Functional Options Pattern in Go
Constructors in Go are simple when a type has one or two fields. But the moment you start building something
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Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving AI Agent from Nous Research
Hermes Agent is an open-source AI agent framework developed by Nous Research — the team behind the Hermes family of
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Effective Error Handling in Go: From `if err != nil` to `errors.AsType`
Go’s error handling gets a lot of attention — and a lot of criticism. The familiar if err != nil
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The Specification Pattern in Go: Composable Business Rules Without the Spaghetti
Business rules have a nasty habit of multiplying. What starts as a simple if check grows into nested conditionals scattered
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GitHub Actions: Practical CI/CD Patterns for Production Workflows
Editor’s note (September 12, 2026): Every pattern below still holds. Action pins were refreshed to current majors — checkout v7,
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Rust 1.95 and 1.96: Copy Ranges, cfg_select!, and Pattern Matching Upgrades
Rust 1.95 and 1.96 landed within weeks of each other this spring, and together they bring a surprisingly impactful set
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The Strategy Pattern in Practice: Replacing Complex Conditionals with Composable Behaviors
Every codebase has one: a function that started as a simple if/else and grew into a 200-line switch statement with