Issue #109: Go Newsletter Issue #109 — Go Weekly

Awesome Go LibHunt: Curated Go Tools and Libraries tools

Hundreds of Go resources (mostly libraries and tools hosted on GitHub) organized into categories and sorted by ‘popularity score’.

Libhunt

Go 1.7 Observed Performance Changes news

Go 1.7 is still in the pipeline, but you can already check out some benchmarks showing how performance has changed in the latest canary builds.

Brian Hatfield

httpexpect: Helps You Write Nice Tests for Your HTTP API code

httpexpect provides an API for elegantly writing tests for HTTP-based APIs.

Victor Gaydov

Kraken.io: Integrate your site with the most robust image optimization API

Kraken.io offers a robust, fully-featured image optimization and manipulation API. Remove image bloat from your service and free yourself from writing tedious imaging code. Sign up free and try out our Go package or one of our other integrations.

kraken.​io sponsored

How Go and Neo4j Enabled The FT to Deliver at Speed video

A 20 minute talk by Dan Murphy of the Financial Times about how they shifted to a Neo4j and Go-powered, microservices-based system.

YouTube

Rewriting the Gophers Invite Form in Go tutorial

Gophers is a popular Slack community for Go developers but its signup form was based on a Node.js system. Here’s how it was ported purely to Go.

Kristoffer Berdal

Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot podcast

A 36 minute chat with two members of the Go core team on why Go is finding success in the cloud.

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Test Fixtures in Go tutorial

A description of "how you can use test fixtures, data files on disk, with the Go testing package"

Dave Cheney

Work on a Better Stack

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Hired.​com

Remote Go Meetups news

GoBridge

Understanding Go's `nil` Value tutorial

Gmarik Info

The Performance of Green Threads and Why It Matters opinion

As provided by goroutines.

Martin Sústrik

Manul: Yet Another Vendoring Tool for Go Programs tools

Claims to avoid the reasons other vendoring tools "suck".

Egor Kovetskiy

Stop building APIs! tools

Auto-generate REST APIs from any SQL/NoSQL database. Supports V8js, Node.js, PHP, and Python. Open source, active community.

DreamFactory sponsored

Freeze: An Immutability Helper code

Enables the freezing of data, similar to JavaScript’s Object.freeze() - frozen objects cannot then be modified further.

Luke Champine

doctl: A Command Line Tool for DigitalOcean's Services code

DigitalOcean

go-flagz: Dynamic Flag Management for Go code

Dynamic, thread-safe flag variables that can be modified at runtime via etcd.

Michal Witkowski

gogen-avro: Generate Go Code to Serialize and Deserialize Avro Schemas code

Alan Gardner

tiles: A Map Tiling Library Written in Pure Go code

buck heroux

Sqrape: Query-Based Scraping with CSS and Go Reflection code

A library that uses struct ‘tags’ to access and extract data from HTML.

Cathal Garvey

smlr: Re-Encode JPEG Images with No Perceivable Quality Loss code

Jason Mooberry

Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS, using Go code

Provides a developer-focused API for building and deploying apps on ECS in an isolated VPC.

convox

Nihongo: Open Source Japanese Dictionary Written in Go code

GoJP

NetTop: A Simple Command Line Bandwidth Monitor in Go code

cs8425

Teleport: A Trigger-Based Postgres Replicator Written in Go code

Pagar.​me