Issue #166: #166: The State of Go with Francesc Campoy — Go Weekly

The State of Go with Francesc Campoy video

In a 20 minute talk, Francesc gave his latest update on where Go is at, upcoming changes to the language, and the growth of our community.

Gopherfest 2017

For Range Semantics

Bill Kennedy looks at how the for range statement provides both a value and pointer semantic form and the mechanics around this.

William Kennedy

Go 1.9 Beta 2 Released

Stay up to date with what’s new in 1.9 with the draft release notes and be sure to file issues for problems you encounter.

Chris Broadfoot

Docker for Windows, Linux and Mac

In this free eBook you will get an overview of Docker’s new native applications for Windows and Mac, alongside tips and gotchas on how to use Docker on these platforms.

Codeship sponsored

Leveraging Interfaces in Go

Runs through an example using an interface from the standard library to enforce the data requirements of an application.

Tamizhvendan S

A C++ Developer Looks At Go

The first installment of a series looking at the design and choices of Go from the perspective of a C/C++ developer.

Murray Cumming

Stencil: Simple Code Templating for Go

Another approach at bringing some of the benefits of generics to Go using code generation.

Sridhar Venkatakrishnan

Golang Developer - Elastic/Beats Team (Remote)

We're looking for a Developer to join our Beats team to help maintain the Beats, create new ones, and show support to the community.

Elastic

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Google App Engine Adds (Beta) Support for Go 1.8 news

Google Cloud Platform

Gogland EAP 10 (JetBrains' Go IDE) Adds Go 1.9 Support news

JetBrains

Working with Ethernet Frames from Go tutorial

Matt Layher

Multiplexing Golang Channels to Maximize Throughput tutorial

Using a tidy file format and Golang's concurrency, our new backup & restore tools are faster, simpler, & more featureful.

MongoDB sponsored

Compile-Time Checking for Deadlocks and Channel Panics tutorial

Based on a research paper, the post uses two tools (MiGo and Gong) to find concurrency issues at compile time.

Emil Hessman

Writing Expressive Tests with Ginkgo and Gomega tutorial

Ginkgo is a BDD framework and Gomega is a set of assertions and matchers.

Lanre-Adelowo

Basic Testing Patterns in Go tutorial

Agrea

Searching for Unprotected Redis Instances with Go tutorial

Gökberk Yaltıraklı

goman: The Missing Man Pages for Go Binaries tools

A tool that fetches the README file for Go binaries from one of many possible locations and formats the page in the terminal.

Applied Go

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linode sponsored

Badger: A Super Fast Key-Value Store in Native Go code

Dgraph

tcpproxy: Build TCP Proxies with Optional Routing Facilities code

GitHub repo.

Brad Fitzpatrick

HyperLogLog: An Improved HyperLogLog Implementation for Go code

Axiom, Inc.​

pREST: Serve A RESTful API From Any Postgres Database code

Nuveo

graceful: Graceful Shutdown of Go 1.8+ Servers using Server.Shutdown code

TV4

hutplate: A net/http Wrapper With Extra Functionality code

Adds functions for sessions, HTTP error handling, flash messages, etc.

Muhammad Usman

Liblb: A Study and Replication of 4 Load Balancing Algorithms in Go code

Khalid Lafi

Hermes: A Minimalist, Easy to Deploy, Dependency Free File Server code

George Hosu