Web applications are used by more of us than ever before. With this growth comes a significant challenge: how can a web developer or administrator manage user traffic effectively and ensure that services remain stable, responsive and secure? Rate limiting serves as a crucial technique in addressing this challenge, allowing developers to control how frequently […]

Huffman coding is a widely-used algorithm for lossless data compression. By assigning variable-length codes to an input string’s characters, it ensures that the most frequently seen characters have shorter codes, while less frequently seen characters have longer codes. This technique minimizes the overall size of the data to be transmitted or stored. In this blog […]

I know it sounds like a funky dance move, but the Knuth shuffle is actually an elegant method for randomly rearranging the elements in an array — or, as we Gophers tend to prefer, a slice. The algorithm is very easy to understand and implement, which means that you should be able to use it […]

This post will explain what hash functions are and how they’re used. We will then go on to look at some examples of hashing algorithms in Go code. Finally, we will look at importing external packages that export hash functions, including from the standard library. What Is a Hash Function? A hash function takes data […]

When an image is pixelated, it has a visual effect applied to reduce its level of detail through the use of many same-sized blocks, each painted with a single colour. Each of those blocks can be thought of as a large pixel (since a pixel is the smallest unit that can contain a colour in […]

It’s reasonable to look at a picture and to wonder how it might look if it were distilled down into a single colour, which somehow still encapsulates a sense of the original. In this post, we will look at various methods that can be used to calculate the average colour of an image in Go, […]

In any programming language, there are two main algorithms used for finding a given value in an array: linear search and binary search. (Just to note: in Go, we generally use slices rather than arrays, but I’ll use those two terms interchangeably in this post, just for the sake of simplicity, since everything that I […]

In this post, I am going to show you how to transform a full-colour image into one made up entirely of different shades of grey. The sort of image that we will create is called greyscale, because every colour that makes up the image is stored as a position on a predetermined scale of greys […]