Issue #119: Go Newsletter Issue #119 — Go Weekly

Understanding Nil (in Go) slidedeck

Slidedeck from the opening keynote at GopherCon 2016 digging into nil, what it represents, what it means, and how it’s defined in Go.

Francesc Campoy Flores

GoTrace: Concurrency Tracer and Visualizer for Go tools

A 3D (WebGL) visualizer of Go concurrency flows. It analyzes trace produced by go tool trace.

Ivan Daniluk

BuntDB: Embeddable, In-Memory Key/Value Database for Go code

A low-level, in-memory (but persists to disk), key/value store in pure Go, with geospatial support. Inspired by BoltDB.

Josh Baker

Neither this, nor self: Receivers in Go

As the old joke goes, there are only two hard problems in computer science - cache invalidation and naming things. Andrey Petrov shows us how to solve the latter when naming receivers in Go. Read More.

Heroku sponsored

Go 1.6.3 and 1.7rc2 Released news

Versions 1.6.3 and 1.7rc2 contain a fix for a security-related issue (httpoxy in particular) in addition to adding support for the upcoming macOS Sierra.

Chris Broadfoot

How to Correctly Use context.Context in Go 1.7 tutorial

A look at a new library in Go 1.7, the context library, and when or how to correctly use it.

Jack Lindamood

Gongular: A Different Approach to Go Web Frameworks code

An HTTP server framework for developing APIs easily. It’s similar to Gin Gonic, but features Angular-like dependency injection and better input handling.

Mustafa Akın

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Hired.​com

A Retrospective of GopherCon 2016 news

A look back at GopherCon 2016, which took place in Denver earlier this month.

Brian Ketelsen

Building Your Own Build Status Indicator with Go and a Raspberry Pi 3 tutorial

Tit Petrič

Using Go For Custom Wallpapers tutorial

A fun project for creating custom desktop wallpapers. There’s an associated GitHub repo.

John Pettigrew

Go is for Everyone opinion

Matt Aimonetti

Debug and Support Your Go Apps with Backtrace. Free to Try. tools

Capture and analyze the complete state of your Go apps at the time of error. Go beyond error reports. Read more.

Backtrace sponsored

UniDoc: A PDF Toolkit for Go code

Released under a dual AGPL/commercial license.

UniDoc

Sleuth 1.0: Library for Masterless P2P Autodiscovery Between HTTP Services code

Afshin Darian

fast: Minimal Zero-dependency Utility for Testing Internet Download Speed code

A very simple wrapper around fast.com.

Ddo

Work: Enqueue and Processes Background Jobs in Go code

gocraft

mailchimp-go: Go Client for MailChimp API V3 code

"While coverage of the MailChimp API is limited in the current state, the goal is to provide a basic structure that can be built upon to eventually have full coverage."

Conner Hewitt

RAM increase: 2GB of RAM for only 10ドル/mo. tools

Host your next Go project on the powerful Linode platform.

Linode sponsored