Issue #161: #161: The State of Go in May 2017 — Go Weekly

The State of Go in May 2017

Google’s Francesc Campoy gives us an update on where Go is at in mid 2017, mostly focused on stdlib and runtime improvements. Talk video here.

Francesc Campoy

Language Mechanics on Stacks and Pointers

Understanding memory and pointers are key to becoming a solid Go programmer. This post digs into both with easy examples.

William Kennedy

Go 1.8.3 Released (Shortly After 1.8.2)

A minor bugfix release with fixes to the compiler, runtime, documentation, and database/sql, plus a security fix to the crypto/elliptic package.

Chris Broadfoot

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

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Codeship sponsored

c2goasm: A C to 'Go Assembly' Conversion Tool

Produces a pure Go solution, meaning there’s no need for a C compiler to be installed for compilation.

Frank Wessels

Do Vendored Dependencies Make Go Plugins Less Useful?

Plugins are unlikely to be built against libraries that have been vendored. This repo outlines the issue.

Schley Andrew Kutz

The X-Files: Exploring the Go Standard Library Sub-Repositories

A new series about the /x/* packages focused on looser compatibility requirements than the stdlib. The first post covers rate limiting with /x/time/rate.

Chris Roche

Big Data with Go Instead of MapReduce

The trials and tribulations of successfully replacing a large MapReduce cluster with a single machine running a Go application.

Ross Williamson

Golang Backend Engineer (Berlin, Germany) (f/m)

We’re looking for senior Golang developers interested in building scalable backend services for real-time anti-fraud detection.

Fraugster Ltd

Work on Interesting Projects in Go.

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Hired

GoBooks: A List of 31 Different Go Books news

Some paid, some free - with brief summaries of each.

Dariush Abbasi

Integration Tests for a Go CLI Application tutorial

An interesting way to test a Go application using table-driven tests, Golden Files, and a Makefile.

Luca Pette

Controlling a Digispark Board using Gobot and LittleWire tutorial

Applied Go

What is SQL Injection and How Do We Avoid It in Go? tutorial

Jon Calhoun

Debugging Go Core Dumps tutorial

A way to get a core dump from your running Go process and use Delve for debugging. Linux only.

Jaana B.​ Dogan

Long-Running Go Applications with Large Memory Needs story

An attempt to replace BoltDB with straight RAM by using “unsafe” packages and syscalls for a long-running Go application.

Phil Pearl

Introduction to NoSQL and MongoDB video

Learn how to build your first MongoDB application in this free, 12-part video series.

MONGODB sponsored

Using Go for Data Science video

Daniel Whitenack

c2go: A Tool for Converting C to Go tools

Early days, but now supports dynamic memory alloc with malloc/calloc - a key step forward.

Elliot Chance

Autoscaling for your Heroku dynos tools

Automatically scale up and down to handle increased workloads and avoid wasting money on idle resources.

HireFire sponsored

go-grpc-middleware: GRPC Middleware Helpers code

gRPC Ecosystem

Metaflector: Higher-level Reflection Capabilities for Inspecting Objects & Structs code

Jay Taylor

MemGuard: Pure Go Library That Handles Sensitive Values in Memory code

Awn

httpsnoop: Capture HTTP Related Metrics from http.Handlers code

Felix Geisendörfer

pinhole: A 3D Wireframe Drawing Library for Go code

Josh Baker

S2: A Cartesian, Circle, and Spherical Geometry Library code

An ongoing port of the C++ S2 library.

github.​com