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Understand Go Pointers in Under 800 Words

One of Go’s most active contributors explains pointers from the ground up, complete with diagrams.

Dave Cheney

Distributed Tracing for Go from Google

Google has created a Go client for Stackdriver Trace, their free distributed tracing backend (that doesn’t require you use GCP for your apps either).

Google Cloud Platform

A Foray Into Go Assembly Programming

A list of issues and quirks when attempting to program assembly in Go.

Scott Mansfield

Deploy a MongoDB replica set on AWS in minutes.

If you're looking for a easy way to run MongoDB in the cloud, try MongoDB Atlas (the hosted database service from the company who builds MongoDB) for automated provisioning, backups, upgrades, and monitoring.

MONGODB sponsored

Glob Matching Can Be Simple And Fast

Russ Cox looks at the scalability of glob pattern matching and ways to avoid it becoming an expontential process.

Russ Cox

Commento: A Lightweight, Tracking-Free Comment Engine code

The Disqus commenting system has been criticized recently for loading lots of tracker pixels. Here’s a simple Go-based alternative.

Adhityaa

Pixel: A 2D Game Development Library code

Focused on fast 2D graphics rendering and has a simple API. Comes with a few examples and a handful of tutorials to get started.

Michal Štrba

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HomeMade

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echo 3.1 Released: A Minimal, High Perf Web Framework news

LabStack

Caddy 0.10 (HTTP/2 Server with Automatic HTTPS) Released news

Now supports HTTP/2 Server Push.

Caddy

Reproducing Go Binaries Byte-by-Byte tutorial

Filippo Valsorda

Writing Modular Go Programs with Plugins tutorial

A simple example using Go 1.8’s plugin system.

Vladimir Vivien

Using 'dep' for Dependency Management tutorial

An example of using the (likely) to-be dependency management standard in a project.

Michael Hausenblas

Semantic Analysis with Machine Learning in Go tutorial

James Bowman

Creating a Web App Using the Gorilla Web Toolkit tutorial

Dave Rolsky

Guidelines on Refactoring Go Programs slidedeck

Roger Peppe

Try Codeship Basic: simple hosted CI that works out of the box

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Representing Trees in Go Code video

A video in the Let’s Learn Algorithms series.

Jon Calhoun

Creating a Web Server With Echo video

The sixth installment in the series, found here.

Blue Bot

A 'Clean Architecture' Checker for Go tools

See if your project is following Uncle Bob’s Clean Architecture rules.

Robert Laszczak

Pgweb: A Cross-Platform Client for Postgres tools

Built using Go and works on macOS, Linux and Windows.

Dan Sosedoff

A BigQuery Dataset for Go's Build History tools

Brad Fitzpatrick

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linode sponsored

gossed: Push Standard Input as Server Sent Events code

Easily push events to a browser, such as for monitoring dashboards or tailing logs.

Mahmoud Ben Hassine

go-astilectron: Build Cross Platform GUI Apps with Electron code

Connects Go with the HTML, JS and CSS-based Electron toolkit.

Quentin Renard

A Work-in-Progress Go-Based SQLite Driver (without cgo) code

An interesting idea that runs the C version of SQLite in a pure Go sandboxed VM.

github.​com