Issue #41: Go Newsletter Issue #41 — Go Weekly

Go Newsletter 41

Issue 41 — January 19, 2015

A LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

As Matt mentioned, change is in the air and the Go Newsletter now counts JavaScript Weekly and Postgres Weekly as sister newsletters at Cooper Press.

The main changes are a new layout, new site, and publication is weekly once again. Each future issue will be sent on Thursdays from Jan 22 onward, so we'll see you again soon :-)

- Peter Cooper and Matt Cottingham

Featured

Go 1.5's Bootstrap Plan news

The team wants Go to eventually be built entirely with a toolchain written in the language, eliminating all C programs from the Go source tree.

google.com

Go 1.4.1 Released: A Minor Bug Fix Release news

golang.org

Go and the Secure Shell protocol tutorial

An introduction to the technicalities of the Secure Shell protocol before moving on to creating a small SSH daemon in Go.

Gopher Academy

Errors Are Values opinion

Some reflection on error handling in Go.

The Go Blog

Go Bootcamp Tour: Four 3 Day Go Workshops Across America news

An introductory Go course in San Francisco, Denver, Washington DC, and New York.

Ardan Labs

Building Services in Go video

A look at building production-level services that can cope with 10,000 simultaneous clients. Claims to be ‘a quick-and-dirty education in building highly concurrent software.’

Mark Smith

Reading

Go: From a Non-Programmer's Perspective opinion

Jian Zhen

Why Tech Startups Should Look At Go opinion

William Kennedy

Type-safe Templating with 'ego' tutorial

ego is a port of Ruby’s ERB templating system.

Ben Johnson

Using Go to Improve Your Ruby Application's Performance tutorial

A rather artificial example but a look at how calling out to programs written in Go can work from slower languages.

Antoine Finkelstein

Datetime Parsing with Go tutorial

Simon Taranto

Videos

Let's Build A Virtual Machine (in Go)

A simple 25 minute introduction and live coding session. (The content is good although the audio is rather quiet.)

Tom Hudson

Gobot Is Go: Using Golang For Robotics and The Internet of Things

Gobot, a Go robotics framework, can communicate with different kinds of hardware devices (like Arduinos, Spheros, ARDrones) and integrate them together.

Ron Evans and Adrian Zankich

Code

Nintengo: An NES Emulator Written in Go code

Niels Widger

go-wiki: A Simple Wiki Server written in Go code

Peter Renström

BadActor: An In-Memory Application Driven Jailer Written in Go code

Jared Folkins

novm: An Experimental KVM-based Hypervisor, written in Go code

A legacy-free type 2 hypervisor written in Go. Its goal is to provide an alternate, high-performance Linux hypervisor for cloud workloads.

Google

disposable_redis: Create Disposable Redis Instances on Random Ports code