Issue #147: Go 1.8 Released — Go Weekly

Go 1.8 Final Released news

The latest release of Go is out. We’re publishing slightly ahead of any official blog post, but you can download it and read the release notes already :-)

github.​com

What's New in Go 1.8 slidedeck

26 slides quickly touring what’s new and what’s changed in 1.8.

John Hua

Go Web Examples

Easy to understand snippets on webdev related tasks in Go, inspired by the Go By Example project.

Philipp Tanlak

MySQL for JSON?

Many of our customers rely on NoSQL databases, but there are increasing numbers who are looking at relational databases and the cost/benefits of their JSON storage and retrieval capabilities. So, we show you how to use JSON in MySQL.

Compose sponsored

Gobot 1.2 Released: The Go Robotics/IoT Framework code

Deliberately released in conjunction with Go 1.8, Gobot gains improved Bluetooth Low Energy support including to Arduino 101 devices, and more.

Ron Evans

GLHF: Have Fun with OpenGL in Go code

OpenGL Have Fun (GLHF) wants to help you avoid (some of) the verbosity around OpenGL for building 3D graphical experience in Go.

Michal Štrba

Building & Testing a REST API with Gorilla Mux and Postgres tutorial

How to build simple and well tested REST APIs using Gorilla Mux — a stable and versatile router.

Kulshekhar Kabra

Changes to Go's Code of Conduct news

The anonymous reporting mechanism has been removed, and the Working Group takes on an advisory role rather than a disciplinary one.

Andrew Gerrand

Platform Engineer at VSCO (Oakland, CA)

We're looking for a Full Stack engineer to work with the newest technologies including internal projects and consumer-facing products.

VSCO

Using Go to Manage Secrets in AWS tutorial

Mark Sutton

Zero to HTTP/2 with AWS and Hugo tutorial

Get the Go static site generator up and running along with HTTP/2.

Josh Habdas

Using Channels as 'Futures' in Go? tutorial

Tejas Manohar

Go Debugging within Vim with GDB tutorial

Michael Thessel

[eBook] Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications

Monitoring is highly important in running apps at scale. Apply best practices from this book to avoid pitfalls.

VividCortex sponsored

A Profiling Adventure to Speed Up Go story

Stephen Whitworth

Gogradle: A Gradle Plugin Providing Full Support for Go tools

Supports 526 of GitHub’s top 1000 Go repos without any extra config.

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awless: A New Go-Powered Command Line Interface for Managing AWS tools

Wallix

pam-ussh: Uber's SSH Certificate PAM Module code

Uber Engineering

gosnmp: A Go SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Library code

Sonia Hamilton

Geekmarks: A Bookmarking Service/Webapp Built in Go code

Dmitry Frank

After Dark: A Dark Theme for the Hugo Static Site Generator code

comfusion.​github.​io

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Use a simple, powerful hosting company.

Linode sponsored

Hero: A Performance-Oriented Go Template Engine code

A lightweight template engine that pre-compiles templates to Go code.

github.​com

gocryptfs: An Encrypted Overlay Filesystem code

Jakob Unterwurzacher