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On the Behavior of Channels

Buffered and unbuffered channels have different behavior around guarantees and latency. Knowing which to use in certain scenarios is paramount.

William Kennedy

Using the Go Tracer video

A fun look at using Go’s execution tracer to trace and create profiles of a long-running process to squeeze out more performance.

Francesc Campoy

govips: A Fast and Robust Image Library Built on libvips

libvips is essentially a faster modern alternative to ImageMagick.

David Byttow

Build Social Networks With Go

Go is a great language to build scalable social networks. We've built a robust Go client to make integrating with Stream easy & painless. Build, scale and personalize your news feeds and activity streams.

Stream sponsored

Faktory: A New Background Job System

From the creator of the Sidekiq background processing framework, Faktory aims to be more language agnostic, among other things. There’s an official Go client here.

Mike Perham

Awesome Go: 1200+ Go Links, Library and Tools

A ridiculously thorough list of Go resources in over 50 categories. I think we need to submit this newsletter some time though.. :-D

awesome-go.​com

Go 1.9.2 and Go 1.8.5 Released, Minor Releases news

Don’t get too excited, these are minor point releases but contain a variety of fixes and are worth upgrading to.

Chris Broadfoot

Go Heroes Needed @ BookerZzz (Haarlem, NL)

Join an enthusiastic multicultural team rebuilding our hotel booking monolith into Go microservices using the latest tech stack.

BookerZzz (HotelSpecials & BungalowSpecials)

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Vettery

The Ultimate Visual Guide to Go Enums tutorial

Inanc Gumus

Monitoring Slow SQL Queries via Slack tutorial

Azer Koçulu

The Ultimate Guide to Building Database Driven Apps with Go

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

VividCortex sponsored

Reddit: What Cool Programs Have You Created Using Go? story

Reddit

On Node.js, Go, and Concurrency opinion

A response to the original creator of Node.js saying Go is better suited to large-scale server-side work.

Edney Pitta

dep 0.3.2 Released: A Go Dependency Management Tool tools

github.​com

Moka: A Go Mocking Framework tools

Giuseppe Capizzi

Gobot 1.7 Released: Eyes Of The World code

Brings support for OpenCV 3, GoPiGo3, and the Holystone HS-200 drone.

Ron Evans

RPCX: A Fast Service Discovery and Governance RPC Framework code

rpcx.​site

Fosite: A 'Security First' OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect SDK for Go code

ORY

Baloo 3.0: Expressive End-to-End HTTP API Testing Made Easy code

Check this example code to see how easy it is.

Tomás Aparicio

Reducing Microservice Overhead with Shared Libraries

The importance of maintaining version dependencies for your microservice architecture.

CircleCI sponsored