Issue #108: Go Newsletter Issue #108 — Go Weekly

Go Best Practices, Six Years in opinion

A great set of insights and tips from an experienced Go developer. This has been getting a lot of love on social media and is a must read.

Peter Bourgon

The Go 1.7 Freeze Begins Now news

Go 1.7 is on the way, so minor bugfixes and new features are now discouraged. "An explicit goal is to ship the first beta on time, by May 31."

Russ Cox

Barcelona Full Stack Fest 2016: Problems of today, ideas from the future

Barcelona Full Stack Fest 2016 is a conference for curious developers looking to expand their horizons. We're offering Super Early Bird tickets at a discounted price until May 14th - exactly when the Call For Papers ends.

Full Stack Fest sponsored

Jet: A Template Engine Designed for Speed code

Based on text/template, supports template inheritance, block imports, and more. The author claims it outperforms other popular engines when templates are not pre-compiled.

Henrique Santos

Writing a Compiler in Go tutorial

An attempt at porting Jack Crenshaw’s famous Let’s Build a Compiler text to using Go (instead of the original Pascal).

Dan Crowley-Wilson

goserv: A Toolkit for Web Applications in Go tools

A toolkit that provides a layer over the net/http package to make building web applications easier.

Marcel Gotsch

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Brad and Andrew are looking for Go packages to review on their show news

Brad Fitzpatrick and Andrew Gerrand occasionally produce videos where they review Go packages. Submit yours to be considered.

Twitter

Graduating to Go story

"I’ve compiled the five experiences that I enjoyed the most as I got started in Go."

Kaylyn Gibilterra

Testing in Go From The Ground Up: The Basics of Go Testing and Testify tutorial

Computer Science for the Slothful

Getting Started with the Otto JavaScript Interpreter tutorial

A JS engine written in Go.

Conrad Pankoff

Download free eBook: Continuous Integration and Delivery with Docker tutorial

In this free book we look at how to set up a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Docker and containers.

Codeship sponsored

Comparing Go with Java (from a Java Dev's POV) opinion

Peter Verhas

go-haproxy: Go Library for Interacting with HAProxy's Stats Socket code

bradley cicenas

Fix: A Fast, Comparable Fixed-Point Type with int64 Numerator and Denominator code

fncodr

go-watson-sdk: Go SDK for IBM Watson services code

Livio Soares

A Fork of /x/net/http2 Providing HTTP/2 Server Push for Go code

Bradley Falzon

StatusOK: Local Server Monitoring and Uptime Notification code

Written in Go.

Sanath Kumar Pasumarthy

rure-go: Go Bindings to Rust's Regex Engine code

Andrew Gallant

grimd: A Fast DNS Proxy for Ad and Malware Blocking code

looter

go-finance: Simple Financial Markets Data in Go code

Brings together a variety of sources (such as Yahoo’s Finance APIs).

FlashBoys

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Periscope Data sponsored