Issue #149: Go Newsletter Issue #149 — Go Weekly

An Intro to Flow-Based Programming in Go

In flow-based programming, programs are modelled around messages flowing between ‘black box’ processes, and channels and goroutines can be used to pull it off in Go.

Christoph Berger

Breaking Go’s Automated Memory Management: Here’s What Happened

The developers of a database encryption tool had to investigate, and fix, an interesting memory leak.

Cossack Labs

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Configuring Go Apps with TOML tutorial

Digging into configuring Go apps using a simple, INI-like configuration language called TOML, as well as some related difficulties and pitfalls.

Benaiah Mischenko

Pgx: A Pure Go Postgres Client Library code

It supports many additional features beyond what’s available through database/sql and is designed to be used directly if you need to get the most out of Postgres from Go.

Jack Christensen

The First Go Program

Yep, we’re going back to 2013 (and 2008) but if you weren’t around then, this tale of the first Go program, written in 2008, is a fun look back.

Andrew Gerrand

Writing An Interpreter In Go: The Paperback Edition news

Thorsten Ball

Implementing S3 Delta-Upload for static-aws-deploy story

Mario Zupan

Exploring the 'exec' System Call with Go tutorial

Includes a story of an interesting use of syscall.Exec on Heroku at the end.

Victor Vrantchan

[eBook] The Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Driven Apps with Go tutorial

This book contains years of wisdom from experts & the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database with Go

VividCortex sponsored

How to Shuffle Arrays and Slices in Go tutorial

Jon Calhoun

Text Classification with a Naive Bayes Classifier tutorial

Starts as a primer on text classification, ends with a Go example.

Wojtek Lukaszuk

Tracing gRPC Calls in Go with Google Stackdriver tutorial

Harlow Ward

Linux, Netlink, and Go — Part 2: Generic Netlink tutorial

Matt Layher

How to Setup Go 1.8 and gb on Fedora tutorial

Amit Saha

You, Latency and Profiling slidedeck

Filippo Valsorda

Rebecca: A README Generator for Go tools

Dave Brophy

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Linode sponsored

kvnode: A LevelDB-Based Key/Value Server with Redis API Support code

Josh Baker

Syzkaller: An Unsupervised, Coverage-Guided Linux System Call Fuzzer code

Google

Faygo: Another Go Web Framework code

Henry Lee

HTTPLab: An 'Interactive' Web Server code

Lets you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.

Gustavo Chaín

Soup: Web Scraping Functions, Inspired by BeautifulSoup code

Makes it easy to grab HTML pages, dig around the elements, and extract info.

Anas Khan

go-alone: A Simple, High-Performance MAC Signer code

A package that provides methods to create and verify MAC (Message Authentication Code) signatures.

Bruce Marriner

Task: A Simple 'Make' Alternative code

Andrey Nering

Floppy Gopher: A Flappy Bird Clone Written in Go code

Uses the Go bindings for raylib.

Milan Nikolic