Issue #49: Go Newsletter Issue #49 — Go Weekly

goqu: An Expressive SQL Builder and Query Library code

Aims to make the generation of SQL easy, provides a DSL for the most common SQL expressions, and has a simple query API too.

Doug Martin

Go: How I Start tutorial

A ‘from scratch’ look at beginning to use Go and how Peter Bourgon, a Go evangelist and engineer at SoundCloud, likes to get a Go project started.

Peter Bourgon

30 Videos from GopherConIndia 2015 video

GopherConIndia was a single track Go conference in India that took place last month. Many videos are available, some of which we’ll link separately in the next few issues.

YouTube

Introducing the first ops platform for developers

Performance metrics, error logging, release tracking and mobile alerts in one killer tool. When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. Experimental Go support. Go Newsletter readers get 100ドル credit.

Opbeat sponsored

Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) in Go tutorial

A look at implementing an algorithm to solve a common computer science problem in Go.

Tobias Weingartner

Debugging Go in GDB tutorial

A quick tutorial on debugging a simple Go program using the popular GNU debugger.

cevaris

Go Developers Talk Shop at GopherConIndia 2015

A 40 minute discussion between William Kennedy, Julia Poladksy, Francesc Campoy Flores, Verónica López, and Satish Talim, organizer of GopherConIndia.

The New Stack

Go and the Modern Enterprise video

At the London Go Gathering 2015, Peter Bourgon spoke about Go’s place in the ‘modern enterprise’ and introduced the gokit distributed programming toolkit.

Peter Bourgon

Go 1.5 Concurrent Garbage Collector Pacing

Prior to Go 1.5, Go has used a parallel stop-the-world (STW) collector but 1.5 introduces a concurrent collector. This document looks at how to ‘pace’ the GC to both be effective and CPU efficient.

Austin Clements

Practical Tips for Creating a Go Package Successfully video

Also written in a shorter note form.

GopherConIndia 2015

Raytracing in Go video

Guillaume presents some examples of pictures from projects in his first year at the European Institute of Technology.

Guillaume J.​ Charmes

Genex: A Regular Expression 'Expander' code

Give Genex a regular expression and it’ll spit out the possible strings it could match.

Alix Axel

Decimal: An Arbitrary-Precision Fixed-point Decimal Library code

Spring Engineering

RelayR: Simple Real-Time Web Communication APIs for Go code

Simon Whitehead

bongo: A Go ODM (Object Document Mapper) for MongoDB code

Maxwell Health

Algernon: HTTP/2 Web Server That Can Serve Markdown and Lua Scripts code

Alexander F Rødseth

go-thumber: A Dynamic JPEG Thumbnailing Proxy code

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gocassa: A High Level Cassandra Library in Go, on top of gocql code

Hailo

Elastic: An Elasticsearch client for the Go programming language code

Oliver Eilhard