Talking Go with the Go God feat. AnthonyGG | Backend Banter 055

In today’s episode, we bring AnthonyGG, a highly requested guest, a Go developer with over a decade of experience with Golang and a fellow content creator. This episode will be all around Web Development with Go - from how Anthony started writing code with Go and why he chose this language, to tooling, migrations, integrations with databases, generics, Go job interviews and much, much more! Learn back-end development - boot.dev/ Listen on your favorite podcast player: www.backendbanter.fm/ Anthony's Youtube: ‪@anthonygg_‬ Anthony's Twitch: www.twitch.tv/theanthonygg Anthony's Twitter/X: x.com/anthdm Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:29 Anthony's backstory, how he learned to code and started writing code professionally 08:55 Going from go migrate to goose 13:20 What does Anthony use in tandem with goose/go migrate to interact with databases 14:46 Bun vs gorm vs sqlc 18:26 The way boot.dev is running goose at the moment 20:14 Problems with migration tools 23:47 Should HTTP handlers explicitly return an error? 29:05 Building your own middleware and helper functions 36:00 Generics 38:09 How often does AnthonyGG use a context package and for what purposes 44:57 Golang job interviews 46:12 Developer experience with working with Go on Web Applications 54:51 You still need community-built tools 57:08 Where to find Anthony Like & subscribe for the algo if you enjoyed the video!

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