Issue #91: The best Go links of 2015 — Go Weekly

Go Newsletter 91

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Issue 91 — January 7, 2016

THE BEST GO LINKS OF 2015

I hope you've had a great holiday season. While everyone mentally boots up for the year, we decided to take a look back at the best of 2015. There's some great stuff to check out here.
- Peter Cooper, Editor

Featured

Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Go Devs

An extensive list of 52 Go ‘gotchas’ split into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, each with a description and code examples.

Kyle Quest

Go: How I Start

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

Siesta: RESTful Services Made Simple in Go

Boasts more sophisticated routing than provided by net/http, easy definition and validation of inputs, middleware-style handler chaining, and an idiomatically Go flavor. This was our most popular link of 2015.

VividCortex

Free eBook: Automate your Development Workflow with Docker

In this free Codeship eBook you will learn how to use Docker to solve the problems of inconsistent environments on varying deployment targets and how to build an app to run inside an isolated Docker Container.

Codeship sponsored

7 Common Mistakes in Go and When to Avoid Them video

Steve Francia of Docker looks at some common mistakes when using Go’s features, such as interface usage, pointer misunderstandings, and thinking of errors as strings.

YouTube

The Anatomy of A Go Project

Writing Go code is one thing, but structuring code into a robust project that others can easily work with is another. Here are some tips on the latter.

Afshin Darian

Handling 1 Million Requests per Minute with Go

An engineer needed to build a system that could handle a heavy load (telemetry data POSTed from millions of endpoints). Here’s his story of how he iterated on a solution using Go.

Marcio Castilho

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

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In Brief

Go 1.5 Released: The Sixth Major Stable Release news

Back in August.

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