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!

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Anthony's Youtube: ‪@anthonygg_‬
Anthony's Twitch:   / theanthonygg  
Anthony's Twitter/X: https://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

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