I've been a big fan of probabilistic filters such as Bloom , and (more so) Cuckoo filters for a while now. I've put them to great use in my personal projects, as well as in major data processing projects at work. They fall into a neat class of data structures that let you trade certainty for performance.
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Go has a problem. Go modules place a strange naming requirement on modules version 2 or greater. Module names on modules v2+ must end in the major version ala …/v2 , and communication of this rule has been weak. It's non-obvious, and the community at large does not understand it.