The article provides a comprehensive guide on handling zip files using the Go programming language, detailing the processes of creating, listing, modifying, and extracting files from zip archives with the help of the standard library's archive/zip and compress/gzip packages. It explains how to create zip files using Go's os package, lists the contents using zip.OpenReader, and demonstrates file compression and decompression techniques, emphasizing the use of the defer keyword to ensure files are properly closed. The tutorial includes code snippets for each operation, highlighting common errors and providing solutions, such as adding files to existing zip archives without overwriting them. The guide concludes by encouraging readers to apply these concepts in their projects and suggests using Earthly, a tool to optimize build processes, as a resource for enhancing efficiency in software development.