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Fernando Rios

SRE/DevOps engineer passioned about Go, and good system architecture.
Paraguay ferztyle.me Joined June 2026
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ferztyle • • in Articles • 5 min read
A quick introduction to Go types According to https://go.dev/ref/spec#Types, in Go, a type specifies a set of values, along with operations and methods specific to those values. This is something fundamental about Go: you can define your own types...
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What is context Every Go developer encounters context.Context early. It shows up in function signatures everywhere, HTTP handlers, database calls, AWS SDK methods, gRPC stubs. Most beginners copy the pattern without fully understanding it, passing ...
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ferztyle • • in Articles • 13 min read
What is a package? In Go, every Go program is made up of packages. A package is a directory of .go files that share the same package declaration. The primary purpose of packages is to help you isolate and reuse code. myapp/ ├── main.go ← pac...
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