Issue #142: Go Newsletter Issue #142 — Go Weekly

Go 1.8 Release Candidate 1 Released

The final release is due in February. Draft release notes here.

google.​com

When: A Natural Language Date/Time Parser code

You can pass in things like ‘next Wednesday at 4:20pm’ or ‘Saturday afternoon’ to process.

Mars The Planet

Self Deploying Go Applications video

Moving from deploying a Go app to a single machine up to an entire cluster, Kelsey Hightower shows us how to treat the world as one massive global-scale computer.

Kelsey Hightower

Lob - Direct Mail for Developers

Lob provides an API that enables developers to send postcards, letters, checks, and more as effortlessly as sending emails. Lob is based in San Francisco, CA and is venture backed with over 6000 customers including Amazon, Square, and Counsyl.

Lob.​com sponsored

Visualize the Call Graph of Your Go Program tools

go-callvis is a tool to help visualize the call graph of your program that uses Graphviz’s dot format.

Ondrej Fabry

Buffalo: A Go Web Framework tools

Aims to wrap ‘all of the best packages available and make them all play nicely together’.

Buffalo

Oragono: A Modern, Experimental IRC Server code

Written in Go, naturally. It supports UTF-8 and numerous IRCv3.1 and IRCv3.2 extensions.

Daniel Oaks

Plugins in Go 1.8

A look at the new plugin package coming in Go 1.8 - a bit of background, a look on how to make use of it and some of its (current) limitations.

Nick Groenen

Golang/Backend Engineer @ Poki (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

From monolith to microservices, and all the impact around it. Join us building the ultimate online playground for kids of all ages.

Poki

The Lead Developer 1-day conference for Tech Leads. 21 Feb, New York. news

High-level sessions on leadership and culture plus lightning talks on new tech and programming languages.

White October Events sponsored

When Too Much Concurrency Slows You Down tutorial

This tutorial explores using Go’s benchmarking tools to look over a naive concurrent version of MergeSort, and applying a simple fix.

Or Hiltch

Key Concepts for Building Web Applications in Go tutorial

JT Olds

Go Best Practices: Error handling tutorial

Sebastian Dahlgren

How To Close Channels in Go Elegantly tutorial

Tapir Games

Hitless TLS Certificate Rotation in Go tutorial

Diogo Mónica

Implementing Infinite Sets in Go tutorial

Sven Haardiek

Slice Expressions in Go tutorial

Michał Łowicki

How to store result sets with materialized views in PostgreSQL tutorial

How to use materialized views to process large amounts of data fast on PostgreSQL? How about other DBs?

Compose sponsored

Series: Write Web Applications in Go Without using a Framework video

YouTube

Using Go in the Browser with GopherJS video

Dmitri Shuralyov

Gobot 1.1: Golang Powered Robotics tools

This release adds support for the ESP8266 wireless microcontroller.

Ron Evans

go-fuzz: Randomized Testing for Go tools

Have linked before but well worth revisiting.

Dmitry Vyukov

go-version-update: Update The Version String of Your Go Project tools

github.​com

vim-go 1.11 Released: Go development plugin for Vim tools

Fatih Arslan

Introducing Go-Pipeline: 'Middleware' for Channels code

Steven Bogacz and Michael Robinson

resample: Go Package for Resampling PCM-Encoded Audio code

Lefteris Zafiris

Gores: Redis-Backed Library for Background Jobs in Go code

Xiaohui Wang

chi: Small, Expressive Router / Mux for Go HTTP Services code

Pressly Inc.​

reverseproxy: A Simple Reverse Proxy Server code

geosoft1