Issue #71: Go Newsletter Issue #71 — Go Weekly

Performance Without The Event Loop

A look at how Go helps programmers write highly scalable network servers, without having to worry about thread management or blocking I/O.

Dave Cheney

Dropbox Uses Go For Its Entire Infrastructure Service Layer

Basically just a string of tweets from a Dropbox engineer showing how much Dropbox uses Go ("10s of thousands of servers running millions of hits per second.") before encouraging people to go work there.

Jamie Turner

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Using the gdb Debugger with Go

The gdb debugger allows you to inspect your compiled binaries, get backtraces on the fly, skip code, add breakpoints, and more.

Brendan Fosberry

Gockerize: Packages Static Golang Binaries Into Docker Containers

A tool to automate building statically linked binaries and packaging them into minimal Docker containers.

AeroFS

kala: A Modern Job Scheduler Written in Go code

Has a simple language agnostic JSON over HTTP API and uses BoltDB as a backend. Currently just an alpha.

AJ Bahnken

accounting: Money and Currency Formatting for Go code

Supports different levels of precision, numeric separators, formats, type conversion.

Kyoung-chan Lee

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Mutule: A Steam Greenlight Game Written in Go news

You can’t download it yet but someone’s trying to release a game on Steam that was built in Go using the Vu 3D engine.

Steam Greenlight

How to Cross Compile Go Programs using Docker tutorial

Travis Reeder

Using Postgres in Go tutorial

Jim Walker

How to Vendor Go Dependencies with Docker tutorial

Travis Reeder

Goroutines Error Handling tutorial

Fizer Khan

Embedding A JavaScript-based Polymer App in a Go Binary tutorial

Lateef Jackson

How to Securely Provide a Zip Download of a S3 File Bundle tutorial

Peter Coppinger

Real-time Image Resizing as a Service tools

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Experiences using Go as a Teaching Language with Young Programmers opinion

Owen Waller

onion: Layer Based Configuration for Go code

fzerorubigd

Leaps: A Collaborative Text Editing Service Written in Go code

Uses operational transforms to ensure zero-collision sync across any number of editing clients.

Ashley Jeffs

lambda_proc: Running A Companion Process to An AWS Lambda Function in Go code

Jason Mooberry