Issue #121: Go Newsletter Issue #121 — Go Weekly

Go 1.7 Release Candidates 4 and 5 Released news

RC4 and RC5 came in quick succession. The final 1.7 is due next week.

Chris Broadfoot

A Walkthrough of the Go 'io' Package tutorial

A walkthrough designed to help you understand a key part of Go’s standard library better.

Ben Johnson

Goa 1.0: A Design-First Approach for Building Microservices tools

Goa consists of a DSL for describing an API’s design, a code generation tool and a set of library packages used by both generated and non-generated code.

Raphael Simon

Try Compose PostgreSQL, get a free tshirt

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A Great Reddit Comment Reviewing A New Go Library story

A user submitted a BoltDB library to Reddit. Another user reviewed the code, found a variety of issues, and wrote up an extensive and useful review.

Reddit

Noms: A Versioned, Forkable, Syncable Database code

Includes two implementations, one in Go, one in JavaScript. There’s also a post with the back story.

Attic Labs

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I Love Go; I Hate Go opinion

One developer’s love/hate relationship with the language.

Adam Leventhal

GopherCon Brasil 2016, November 4-6 in Florianopolis, Brazil news

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vim-go 1.8 Released news tools

Fatih Arslan

Free eBook: The Shortlist of Docker Hosting

In this eBook, we will have a closer look at Docker Machine, AWS, Digital Ocean, Carina, Sloppy.io, Giant Swarm, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, Heroku, and Quay.io.

Codeship sponsored

Serving A Vue, React or Ember JS App with Go tutorial

Matt Silverlock

Writing A Ray Tracer in Go tutorial

The 5th and final post of a series on writing a ray/path tracer in Go.

Mark Phelps

Assignability in Go: 6 Forms tutorial

Michał Łowicki

GolangShow: A Go Podcast in Russian podcast

golangshow.​com

Making the Switch from Node to Go story

Alexandra Grant

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Implementing HSTS as Go Middleware code

Adrian Hesketh

Torrent: Full-Featured BitTorrent Client Package and Utilities code

Implements BitTorrent-related packages and utilities in Go. The emphasis is on use as a library from other projects.

Matt Joiner

lexvec: Implementation of the LexVec Word Embedding Model code

Used for natural language processing work.

Alexandre Salle

File Structures 2: Memory Mapped File Structures for Go code

Including a B+ Tree and a memory mapped list.

Tim Henderson

Sup: Super Simple Deployment Tool code

Performs a given set of commands on multiple hosts in parallel.

Pressly

Tarinator: Go Package for Compressing and Extracting tar and gzip Files code

Verybluebot

go-toast: A Go Package for Windows 10 Toast Notifications code

Jacob Marshall

Darwin: A Database Schema Evolution Library code

GuiaBolso

frp: Fast Reverse Proxy to Expose A Local Server Behind A NAT code

Fatedier

ssh-chat: A Custom SSH Server that Provides a Chat Mechanism code

Andrey Petrov

gh-ost: GitHub's Triggerless Online Schema Migration Solution for MySQL code

GitHub