#261 — May 9, 2019
Golang Weekly
Caire: A Content-Aware Image Resize Library — ‘Content-aware’ scaling (such as in Photoshop) lets you resize images in a way that maintains the integrity of the subject of the image. What’s neat here is we get a full explanation of how it works before being handed a library to do it all for us ;-)
Endre Simó
The Hows and Whys of Building Table-Driven Tests — Most Gophers already do prefer them, so Dave expounds on the subject by adding some best practices and packages that make them even better.
Dave Cheney
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Go 1.12.5 and Go 1.11.10 Released — These are (very) minor releases to fix a handful of minor bugs.
Andrew Bonventre
The Go Team Wants Your Feedback If You Work At A Large Company — The Go team are always good about soliciting feedback from the community, and if you work at a company with 1000 employees or more, here’s your turn to share any pain points.
Go Core Team
Go Play Space: An Experimental Go Playground — An experimental alternative to the Go Playground that includes syntax highlighting, themes, and keyboard shortcuts. It also includes a turtle graphics mode for creating cool visualizations like this where the Go gopher draws out your commands(!)
Igor Afanasyev
🎧 Podcast Corner
The Go world needs more podcasts! But thankfully Go Time has recently come out of hiatus, and I wanted to feature some recent interesting episodes:
- Ron Evans (of GoCV and TinyGo fame) went on to discuss hardware hacking with Go.
- There was a panel discussion about testing with Jon Calhoun as a special guest (he who said "TDD is not for me" 😄).
- Mark Bates joined the team to discuss Go 2 and the future of Go.
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📘 Articles & Tutorials
How to Deploy a Buffalo App on Google's App Engine — Buffalo is a neat framework for building full-stack webapps using Go on the backend.
Tomislav Biscan
Delaunay Image Triangulation — If you enjoyed the content-aware scaling feature (above) this is more graphical goodness from the same author.
Endre Simó
What Is the Difference Between Metrics and Events? — Gather data from our systems when monitoring technologies and tools. We want to see database logs and network traffic side-by-side.
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▶ Getting Started with Buffalo — Buffalo is a neat framework for building full-stack apps with a Go backend (as we’ve already mentioned above!) and here’s a full tutorial.
Mark Bates
Error Handling in Go — Some error related best practices and tips, mostly aimed at more beginner Go developers.
Alon Abadi
▶ Concurrency in Go: A Simple, Practical Example — A 15 minute primer based around building a simple HTTP status checker.
Rohit Awate
🔧 Tools & Code
GoReleaser: A Tool for Delivering Go Binaries Quickly — Builds Go binaries for several platforms, creates a GitHub release and then pushes a Homebrew formula.
GoReleaser
Bus: A 'Minimalist' Message Bus Implementation for Internal Communication — Inspired by a similar package for Elixir.
Mustafa Turan
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Flipt: A Feature Flag System for Running Experiments — Add ‘feature flag’ support to your existing applications, with a simple, single UI and API. More info on the official homepage.
Mark Phelps
Gin 1.4.0: A Performance-Focused HTTP Web Framework — Not new but there’s a new release and it continues to be popular.
Gin-Gonic
rqlite 4.5.0: Using SQLite as a Distributed Database — A distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine.
rqlite
Gameboy.Live: A Gameboy Emulator Built in Go — It includes a mechanism for playing games over telnet too.
Aaron Liu