It's been a surprisingly quiet week for big Go related news, but we have quite a lot of code links for you - find them at the bottom of this issue :-)
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- The Golang Weekly Team (Peter, Glenn, Chris, and Za'e)
Featured
Uses a state machine to establish the format. Includes many tests covering a wide variety of date and time formats.
A tutorial leaning on the new native support for Go on AWS’s serverless platform, Lambda.
“It would be a challenge to release code as often as we do if we didn't have the right tooling in place. Sure, I could deploy code changes without monitoring production errors, but it would be a lot more stressful.”
Learn more.
Tutorials like this really help drive understanding of a difficult concept. Just don’t expect to get rich from this one :-)
A newly open-sourced database server optimized for financial time-series data written in pure Go.
GitHub repo.
A Go-powered tool for building and deploying Docker images on Kubernetes with a simple git push.
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In Brief
A relatively novel way to learn the basics.
It's subjective, but there are lots of interesting points here nonetheless.
Take a look at IMDG from the perspective of the Go programmer. What is an IMDG? And what you can do with it.
Still not recommended for production, but work is progressing well.
Supports APNS and Firebase.
…and allows for duplicate entries.
Functions like BeginningOfWeek, EndOfDay, and parsing time strings.
It doesn’t reimplement everything unicode offers but can boost certain use cases.
Tools to manage and scale game server processes on Kubernetes clusters.