Issue #74: Go Newsletter Issue #74 — Go Weekly

Go GC: Prioritizing Low Latency and Simplicity

Richard Hudson looks at the future of garbage collection in Go, noting that Go needs a GC designed for 2025 and beyond, a future with ‘no place for stop-the-world GC pauses’. There's extensive discussion on HN about this too.

Official Go Blo

Best Practices for A New Go Developer

15 Go developers answer the question "What best practices are most important for a new Go developer to learn and understand?"

Satish Talim

Go skills are in demand.

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Go at Basecamp

Basecamp (formerly 37signals) is a Ruby-focused company but Go has organically found its way into numerous places there.

Basecamp

For Go 2.0 - What Would You Take Out?

An extensive discussion on Reddit.

Reddit

The Easiest Way to Develop with Go - A Docker Based Go Tool

A look at a Docker-based Go tool that makes getting up and running with Go development easy - only Docker is needed to get started.

Travis Reeder

Awesome-Go: A Curated List of Go Libraries, Tools & More

Now up to about 650 links! Somehow this newsletter isn’t there, but you’re already reading it, so... ;-)

Thiago Avelino

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Testing Go 1.5 Cross Compilation on the Raspberry Pi tutorial

Ahmy Yulrizka

Golang Code Reuse - Generalization Tricks tutorial

Justyna Ilczuk

Distributed Locks With DynamoDB tutorial

Tadas Vilkeliskis

Simple Test Driven Development in Go video

A very simple 4 minute intro.

Devcraft.​tv

Writing Middleware and How Go Makes It So Much Fun

Mat Ryer

A Blazing Fast Geo Database with LevelDB, Go and Geohashes

Fabrice Aneche

gounexport: Find Unnecessarily Exported Identifiers in A Package and Help Unexport Them tools code

Isaiah Peng

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

Service: Easily Write Daemons in Go code

Takes care of daemonization, PID files, chrooting, etc.

Hugo Landau

Gomail: The Best Way to Send Emails in Go code

Version 2 has just been released. Gomail provides a simple and efficient package to send emails.

GitHub

rocker-compose: Docker Composition Tool with Idempotency Features for Deploying Apps Composed of Multiple Containers code

Grammarly

Validator: Go Struct and Field Value Validation code

Including Cross Field, Cross Struct, Map, Slice and Array diving.

Blue Sun Corp.​