--- title: Best Awesome Go posts — July 2024 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Awesome Go posts from July 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/awego/best-of/2024/07 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/awego/best-of/2024/07 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Awesome Go posts — July 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Awesome Go posts from July 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Awesome Go — July 2024 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-sent-500-million-http-requests-to-2-5-million-hosts-otg2zhw8s "How I sent 500 million HTTP requests to 2.5 million hosts") Article Awesome Go · 2y How I sent 500 million HTTP requests to 2.5 million hosts An individual leveraged Go's simplicity and concurrency to send 500 million HTTP/1.1 requests to 2.5 million hosts for an ethical hacking use case. By utilizing Kubernetes for horizontal scaling and optimizing both code and libraries, they achieved this massive scale efficiently. Key optimizations included pre-resolving DNS, hand-crafting HTTP requests, and using the fasthttp library. 137 1 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/the-value-of-api-first-design-on-side-projects-lagzfs2np "The value of API-First design on side-projects") Article Awesome Go · 2y The value of API-First design on side-projects API-First design prioritizes the development of APIs before implementing other parts of a software system. It places the API at the center of the development process, facilitating the creation of a well-designed and consistent API that serves as the foundation for the entire application. By using tools like OpenAPI Specification, developers can generate backend and frontend code, ensuring better synchronization and saving time. This method leads to improved development speed, reduced errors, and better API documentation, making it a highly beneficial approach for side projects. 78 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/echovault-embeddable-redis-alternative-in-go-vp67wc15p "EchoVault: Embeddable Redis Alternative in Go") Article Awesome Go · 2y EchoVault: Embeddable Redis Alternative in Go EchoVault is an open-source, embeddable in-memory datastore designed for Go applications, offering a RESP-compatible interface over TCP. It aims to replace traditional in-memory data stores like Redis, eliminating the overhead of separate management and deployment. Key features include TLS support, RAFT-based replication, various data structures, and access control. EchoVault supports both standalone and clustered deployments, making it suitable for use cases like in-memory caching, service discovery, session management, real-time analytics, and more. 57 [See all Awesome Go archives](/sources/awego/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/awego/best-of/2024/07#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/awego/best-of/2024/07","name":"Best Awesome Go Posts — July 2024","description":"The most upvoted Awesome Go posts from July 2024, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/awego/best-of/2024/07#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-sent-500-million-http-requests-to-2-5-million-hosts-otg2zhw8s","name":"How I sent 500 million HTTP requests to 2.5 million hosts"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-value-of-api-first-design-on-side-projects-lagzfs2np","name":"The value of API-First design on side-projects"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/echovault-embeddable-redis-alternative-in-go-vp67wc15p","name":"EchoVault: Embeddable Redis Alternative in Go"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Awesome Go","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/awego"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/awego/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"July 2024"}]}]} ```