Issue #134: Go Newsletter Issue #134 — Go Weekly

Go’s Alias Proposal and Concerns of Google 'Controlling' Go opinion

A worthwhile summary of an issue affecting Go right now. "The alias proposal is the wrong solution to a much bigger issue in Go’s ability to meet its stated goals."

Jack Lindamood

Aiming for Sub-Millisecond GC Pauses news

"10 millisecond pauses are so 2015," says Austin, who has submitted changes to Go’s garbage collector to significantly shorten GC pause times.

Austin Clements

Do Not Fear First Class Functions video

A talk from dotGo 2016 on what first class functions are, how to use them, and why they’ll improve your life as a Go developer. 18 minutes.

Dave Cheney

Explore Your Redis Memory Usage with an Interactive Map

RedisMonitor from RedisGreen shows you large keys, memory leaks, old keys, and other potential problems quickly.

Redisgreen sponsored

Using Microservices to Publish Videos at The New York Times story

How the NYT’s video engineering team has built a Go-powered, scalable job processing pipeline for video encoding and publishing.

New York Times

Changes Coming to 'database/sql' in Go 1.8 news

database/sql will include many new features and optional interfaces. Raise any concerns you have in the next couple of weeks.

Daniel Theophanes

A Curated List of Go Frameworks, Libraries and Software code

'Awesome-Go' now has over 1000 links in a wide variety of categories.

Thiago Avelino

Data Integration Engineer (Kafka/ElasticSearch/Python/Go)

Want to help make sense of the data behind the 1ドル trillion real estate market? Hundreds of data feeds to normalize. Millions of photos to classify. Millions of user events to analyze. You name it, we got it.

REALSCOUT

Don't Get Frustrated - Get Hired

Hired puts the power back in your hands, by having companies apply to you, not the other way around. With Hired you only talk to companies you're interested in.

Hired

GoLab: The Italian Go Conference (January 20-21, 2017) news

golab.​io

Go 1.8 To Get Graceful Shutdown Support for HTTP Servers news

github.​com

'After 3 months of furious hacking, the Go 1.8 freeze is here.' news

Brad Fitzpatrick on Twitter

Beer and Concurrent HTTP Pipelines (for Crawling a Site) tutorial

Damien Radtke

Go Serverless with Apex and MongoDB tutorial

Apex is tooling that wraps the development and deployment experience for AWS Lambda. Find out how to use it.

Compose sponsored

Detecting and Handling 'Pipe to Shell' Situations tutorial

Daniel Schalla

Distributed Task Processing in Go tutorial

Abu Ashraf Masnun

Working with Gzip and Tar tutorial

Svett Ralchev

Microservices in Go video

A well recorded 50 minute talk from GOTO Copenhagen.

Matt Heath

Monitor Go app performance in real-time tools

Graph custom Go metrics, correlate with other systems, and set sophisticated alerts on app performance.

Datadog sponsored

aeron-go: Implementation of an Aeron Messaging Client in Go code

Provides reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport.

Stan Liberman

IMAPMQ: An IMAP Based Message Broker Client code

Provides a simple interface for publishing, subscribing and dequeuing messages.

Michael Sokol

gofollow: Follow Twitter Users Based on Keywords code

Kyriacos Kyriacou

Beego: A Framework for Rapid Development of REST APIs code

Inspired by Tornado, Sinatra, and Flask.

astaxie

sshesame: A Fake SSH Server That Lets Everyone in and Logs Their Activity code

Jakab Kristóf