Issue #100: Go Newsletter Issue #100 — Go Weekly

10 Million Concurrent WebSockets

A look at how using a stock debian-8 image and a Go-backed server, you can handle 10M concurrent connections with low throughput and moderate jitter.

Goroutines

SSH Tron: A Multiplayer Tron Game over SSH code

Built in just 20 hours at a hackathon, this is a SSH-based game written in Go. If you don’t want to compile it yourself just ssh eu.sshtron.zachlatta.com to play a demo.

Zach Latta

Working with Redis

An extensive tutorial on using Redis, the high performance data structure server, from Go.

Alex Edwards

Download free eBook: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with Docker

Continuous Delivery is all about reducing risk and delivering value faster by producing reliable software in short iterations. In this free eBook we take a look at how to set up a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Docker and containers.

Codeship sponsored

git-freeze: Easy Go Vendoring via Git Submodules tools

git freeze will submodule all git-package Go imports from ./... into vendor/

nicerobot

cpustat: High Frequency Performance Measurement for Linux code

This is essentially a more precise, higher frequency alternative to ‘top’ and includes a colorful scrolling dashboard view to see the results in real-time.

Uber Common

Practical Go: Using Google Drive And Calendar tutorial

A code-heavy tutorial demonstrating how to interact with Google Calendar and Google Drive from Go.

Jacob Martin

How to Build a Simple Chat App in Go tutorial

A practical, well written tutorial demonstrating how Go’s concurrency features make writing a chat server trivial.

Allan Maxwell Blair

Help make all systems Go at Chain as we work with Visa/Nasdaq to digitize money

Come work with us as we rethink the tech stack for financial services. We write our software in Go and are looking for engineers who are eager to make a big impact.

Chain.​com

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Proposal: Add /x/net/context to the Standard Library news

Brad Fitzpatrick

proposal: Improve Channels for M:N Producer/Consumer Scenarios news

Andrew Harding

Go Application Error Capturing: Flexible and Powerful tools

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Airbrake.​io sponsored

Practical Go: Using WebSockets tutorial

An introduction to using WebSockets from the Go POV.

Jacob Martin

Property-Based Testing in Go tutorial

Chris James

The Couchbase Sub-Document API for Go tutorial

Todd Greenstein

Monitoring Microservices with Synthetic Transactions in Go tutorial

Ken Grønnbeck

Using Golang and JSON for Kafka Consumption With High Throughput tutorial

Travis Jeffery

Who Is Using Go? opinion

A brief discussion on Reddit with some uses for Go.

Reddit

Monitoring: Go real-time tools

Track any metric via ExpVars, then instantly graph, set alerts, and correlate with perf throughout your stack.

Datadog sponsored

Regen: Generate Random Strings From Go/RE2 Regular Expressions tools code

Noel Cower

Harpoon: A GitHub WebHook Server Written in Go code

Alexandre Grison