Issue #127: Go Newsletter Issue #127 — Go Weekly

Proposal: Add ACME (LetsEncrypt, etc.) Support to net/http news

Core team member Brad Fitzpatrick wants HTTP support to be ‘dead simple out of the box’ with Go. Give the idea your thumbs up if you like his proposed example.

Brad Fitzpatrick

7 Ways to Profile Go Applications video

In 30 minutes, see seven different ways to profile a running Go app along with the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Dave Cheney

A Walkthrough of 'strconv' tutorial

The latest in Ben Johnson’s walkthrough of Go’s standard packages. This time, he looks at formatting primitives into strings quickly while maintaining strong type checking.

Ben Johnson

Go Python Go

What’s the easiest way to speed up your Python server? By handling the requests with Go. See how Andrey Petrov did it (by using C in the middle). Read More.

Heroku sponsored

5 Useful Ways to Use Closures in Go tutorial

Explore five different real-world use cases for closures that will help you understand and utilize closures better in your own Go code.

Jon Calhoun

dhcplb: Facebook's DHCP Load Balancer code

Not many people need a DHCP relayer, but Facebook use this in production and it’s interesting to see how teams at major companies are using Go.

Facebook Incubator

Idiomatic Go Tricks video

A walk through a selection of cool tips and tricks that make coding in Go even more fun. 27 minutes.

Mat Ryer

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Hired.​com

An Interview with Go Developer Dave Cheney news

Dave is speaking and doing a workshop at dotGo 2016.

dotConferences

Go's Main Compiler Goes SSA news

"Today the legacy backend starts getting deleted. Yay."

Brad Fitzpatrick on Twitter

Free (Women Only) Ultimate Go Workshop in SF (Oct 8-9) news

Bill Kennedy

InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Time Series DB Written in Go news

Paul Dix

vim-go 1.9 Released: The Go Development Plugin for Vim news

Fatih Arslan

Connecting R and Compose PostgreSQL tutorial

Learn how to connect R, the language used by data scientists and statisticians, to PostgreSQL with RPostgreSQL and RPostgres.

Compose sponsored

Using Go with Redis: A Very Basic Intro tutorial

Dinosaurscode

How to Use Google Cloud’s Free Structured Logging Service with Go tutorial

BugReplay

Creating a Bot using the Telegram Bot API tutorial

Satish Talim

Building Your Own Log-Based Message Queue in Go video

Victor Ruiz

Managing and Scaling Real Time Data Pipelines using Go video

Jennie Lees

WTF Was Wrong With My (Early) Go Code opinion

Daisuke Maki

Monitoring Go applications in real-time tools

See custom app metrics in context with memory usage, GC, and metrics from across your stack. Try Datadog today.

Datadog sponsored

govvv: A Simple Go Binary Versioning Tool That Wraps 'go build' tools

Ahmet Alp Balkan

vuls: Vulnerability Scanner for Linux/FreeBSD, Written in Go code

future-architect

A Pure Go 'Balloon' Password Hashing Library code

Balloon hashing is a space-hard hashing function developed at Stanford.

Sergey Matveev

Portmidi: Go Bindings to a Digital Media (MIDI, Video, Audio) Library code

Includes an example of a vocoder written in Go.

Maxim Kupriianov

redlog: Redis-Style Logger for Go code

If you like how Redis’s output looks.

Josh Baker

BORG: A Terminal-Based Search Engine for Bash Commands code

Dobronszki János

Teleconsole: Tool to Share Your UNIX Terminal and Forward Local TCP Ports code

Gravitational Inc

jsonapi: Utilities to Convert Go Data To and From the JSON API Format code

Steven Motes

sqlm: A Minimalist SQL Builder for Go code

shuo