Issue #150: Go Newsletter Issue #150 — Go Weekly

The Go 2016 Survey Results

Results from a December 2016 user survey, with commentary and insights from the Go team. Respondents praised Go’s simplicity and would most like to see generics added to the language.

Steve Francia

A Roadmap to Merging 'dep' Into the Go Toolchain

The steps for dep to become Go’s official dependency management tool.

github.​com

A Story of a Fat Go Binary story

The tale of building a simple IoT agent, how the resulting binary is a little.. fat, and how to use gofat to help surgically trim Go binary sizes down a bit.

Dotan Nahum

Redis with HA

RedisGreen helps companies run some of the largest and most scalable Redis deployments in EC2.

Redisgreen sponsored

Calling Go Functions from Other Languages tutorial

Expose your Go APIs to languages such as Python, C, Ruby, etc.

Vladimir Vivien

How I Built A Web Server using Go (and on ChromeOS) tutorial

This is mostly an introduction to Go but through the lens of playing with Go on a Chromebook which is interesting by itself.

Peter Gleeson

Whatlanggo: Natural Language Detection in Go code

Fast, no external dependencies, and a pure Go way to detect what language text is written in. It uses lists of common trigrams in each of 84 languages.

Abado Jack Mtulla

Site Reliability Engineer Zürich, Switzerland

You will have front-to-back engineering and management ownership for our infrastructure (AWS, Firewalls, VPN, Confluence, Splunk, Jenkins.)

Centralway Numbrs

Updating and Deleting Postgres Records Using database/sql tutorial

Jon Calhoun

Use Google App Engine & Go to Host Static Site with Same Domain Redirects tutorial

James W Thorne

A Simple API using Protobuf and gRPC from Go tutorial

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Implementing a Debugger (1 of 2): Make the world a less magical place. tutorial

In this blog, we dive into the guts of debuggers and systems programming to see what they do, and how they work.

Backtrace sponsored

Mid-Stack Inlining in the Go Compiler slidedeck

David Lazar

The State of Go Dependency Management story

Tejas Manohar

Implementing 'tail -f' in Go video

Fabian Stäber

Go's Popularity Doesn't Translate to the Enterprise opinion

Paul Krill

Tester: Lightweight Test Utilities to Use with Go's Testing Package tools

Workfit

Go2asm: Convert the Go Compiler's -S Output to Assembler tools

Russ Cox

go-plus 5.3.0 Released: An Enhanced Go Experience for Atom tools

Joe Fitzgerald

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Get set up with our hosted Continuous Integration service with native Docker support. Join thousands of customers like InvisionApp & Whole Foods.

Codeship sponsored

gdbgui: A Browser-Based Frontend to gdb (GNU Debugger) tools

Add breakpoints, view stack traces, and more. Python-based but can be used to debug Go programs.

Chad Smith

loginsrv: Login Server Providing A JWT Login for Multiple Login Backends code

Essentially a minimal endpoint for authentication.

tarent solutions GmbH

Flag: Simple and Powerful Command Line Flag Parsing Library code

Aihui Zhu

Engo: A Cross-Platform 2D Game Engine Written in Go code

EngoEngine

Excelize: Go Library for Reading and Writing XLSX Files code

Ri Xu

batchputs: Super Fast Batch Inserts/Updates to SQL Databases code

The Plant