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Learn everything you need to know about building, deploying and scaling Go applications in production.

Updated on April 28, 2025

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Scaling Go Applications

Everything about building, deploying and scaling Go applications in production.

Web Application Fundamentals

Using SQL Databases in Go

Redis Caching in Go

Working with JSON in Go

Go 1.24

Benchmarking in Go

Timeouts in Go

PostgreSQL in Go with PGX

Testify

Routing with Gorilla Mux

Error Handling in Go

Database migrations in Go

Deploying to Production

Dockerizing Go Apps

Observability & Monitoring

Logging in Go (Slog)

Logging with Zerolog

Logging with Zap

OpenTelemetry Tracing in Go

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