Issue #83: Go Newsletter Issue #83 — Go Weekly

Implementing a BDD Workflow in Go

A quick guide to Behavior Driven Development and using it to build Go apps via GoConvey, which adds a BDD-oriented DSL on top of Go’s testing package.

Matthew Setter

3 Go Gotchas

A quick look at 3 things that caught a developer off guard: the ‘range’ clause, the built-in ‘append’ function, and variable shadowing.

Bryce Neal

Real-time Image Resizing as a Service

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

4 Weeks of Golang: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly opinion

"So far I’ve spent 4 weeks in Go, quickly becoming my new favorite programming language. That said, nothing is ever a clear win – there are always tradeoffs.."

Freddy Rangel

How to Use FlatBuffers in Go tutorial

FlatBuffers is a high perf serialization format from Google. This tutorial demonstrates their use in Go.

Robert Winslow

Why Go Was The Right Choice for CockroachDB opinion

"The first question many developers ask us is what our experience has been writing a distributed database in Go, a garbage-collected language."

Jessica Edwards

Securing AWS Credentials on Engineers' Machines

A look at how 99designs deals with securing AWS credentials for its 100+ developers, leading to the creation of a new tool called aws-vault, written in Go.

Lachlan Donald

GO: Get Offers (on Hired)

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Hired.​com

Call for Proposals for FOSDEM 2016's Go Room news

Luna Duclos

JetBrains Publishes Official Go Plugin for Its IDEs news tools

JetBrains Plugin Repository

HTTP/2 and Its Basic Usage in Go tutorial

Mark McDonnell

Reducing Nesting in Go Functions with Early Returns tutorial

Dan Peterson

Why log.Logger Is Not An Interface tutorial

Nodir Turakulov

Building Full Stack Web Applications in Go video

A very quick 5 minute flythrough.

YouTube

Go: The Cool Parts slidedeck

Francesc Campoy

Six Reasons Why I Love Go opinion

Jeremy Unruh

Go, A Language Made to Be Mastered opinion

Alessandro Baffa

Explaining Go Error Handling opinion

Ivan Danyliuk

Fix bugs in production before your boss even notices. tools

When people depend on your apps to work, you need Honeybadger. We give you visibility into production problems the moment they happen, and the tools to fix them.

Honeybadger.​io sponsored

XJ2S: Generate Go Structs from an XML/JSON File tools

wicast

go-openflights: Access Flight Data from OpenFlights in Go code

Peter Edge

Times: Go File Time Functions (atime, mtime, ctime, btime) code

Dustin H

Centrifugo: A Real-time Messaging (Websockets or SockJS) Server code

Version 1.0 has just been released.

Centrifugal

go-arg: Struct-Based Argument Parsing code

Declare the command line arguments your program accepts by defining a struct.

Alex Flint

Minio Client (mc): An Alternative Amazon S3 CLI Client Written in Go code

Minio Cloud Storage

Hero: Be An OAuth Provider Today code

Geofrey Ernest