Issue #73: Go Newsletter Issue #73 — Go Weekly

Stupid Gopher Tricks slidedeck

The intro slide says it all: "This talk is about things you might not know about Go. Some of this stuff you can add to your Go vocabulary. Other things are probably best left for special occasions."

Andrew Gerrand

Profiling and Optimizing in Go

Extensive notes and code from a talk given by Brad Fitzpatrick at YAPC::Asia.

Brad Fitzpatrick

Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO, & JPMorgan

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Toptal sponsored

Roger: A Library to Access 'R' from Go tools

Roger is a Go-based RServe client which allows R code to be integrated with Go apps. If you’re not familiar with R, it’s very popular in the graphical statistics field.

Senseye

Calling Go Shared Libraries From Firefox Addons tutorial

Go 1.5 can build shared libraries that can be called using the C ABI. This looks at how you can call such Go-built libraries from Firefox.

Alex Zorin

Build Native Libraries in Go to Use From Ruby with FFI

Go 1.5 can produce shared libraries that can be used directly from Ruby using FFI. This gives Rubyists another language with which to build native libraries.

Peter Hellberg

Dkron: A Distributed, Fault Tolerant Job Scheduling System

A service that runs scheduled jobs at given intervals or times, a la cron but can be distributed across a cluster. Open source and written in Go.

Victor Castell

The New Go 1.5 Vendor Handling news

Matt Farina

Unexpected String to Byte Casting Behavior Found in 1.5 news

GitHub

Publish Your Go Binaries on GitHub with CircleCI tutorial

Jonathan Gautheron

Cross Compilation with Go 1.5 tutorial

Some pointers on cross compiling with Go 1.5.

Dave Cheney

Working with Files in Go tutorial

DevDungeon

The Business Benefits of Building Your Next Project With Go opinion

Tom Maiaroto

Real-time Image Resizing as a Service tools

Resize, crop, and process images at scale and in real-time with imgix. Get up to speed quickly with the community-built Go package.

Imgix sponsored

gopy: Generate CPython Extension Modules From A Go Package tools

go-python

gb 0.1.0 Released: The Alternative Build Tool for Go tools news

"The headline feature of the 0.1 series is support for cross compilation."

Dave Cheney

Sublime Text 3 for Go Docker Container tools

Get started quickly with this Docker container of Sublime Text 3 prepared for Go development.

Jonathan Gautheron

Cloud-Scale Performance Monitoring Made Easy tools

Submit custom metrics from your Go applications using the ExpVars library. Begin your Datadog trial today.

Datadog sponsored

MailSlurper 1.6 Released: SMTP Mail Server for Local/App Dev Use tools code

Adam Presley

gomr: MapReduce in Go using etcd and S3 code

etcd is a distributed consistent key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery.

TurboBytes

bongo: Elegant Static Site Generation with Go code

Geofrey Ernest

Go Starter Kit: Isomorphic React App Boilerplate code

A quick starter kit for building single page apps with React and a Go-based server side API and rendering.

Oleg Lebedev