Book: The Complete Guide to Go Programming
Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go
My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools
Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub
A team I know had a Go service that passed go test -race
on every PR for two years. Coverage was good. The CI step was
green every Friday. Then a customer reported corrupted JSON in a
small fraction of responses. Not enough to alert. Enough to
break a downstream pipeline that was strict about field types.
The race was in a handler that built a response by writing into a
shared *bytes.Buffer from two goroutines. The unit tests never
hit the path under enough load to flip the bits. The integration
tests did not run with -race . CI ran with -race but at a
fraction of production throughput — the scenario the Go docs
warn about.…