Issue #96: Go Newsletter Issue #96 — Go Weekly

Language and Locale Matching in Go

An extensive Go-flavored look at the art of finding the best match between the languages an app supports and those the user prefers and how /x/text/language helps.

Marcel van Lohuizen

Introducing Silk: Markdown-Driven API Tests tools

Lets you write your API documentation in Markdown, and then execute it as an automated test. It’s written in Go.

Mat Ryer

Beyond the Hype: 4 Years of Go in Production video

A 50 minute talk in which the CTO of Iron.io looks at how performance, memory use, concurrency, reliability and ease of deployment are key to the Go experience.

InfoQ

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

Go Report Card: Quality Report Tool for Go Projects tools

Takes a go get URL, scans the Go code in the repo, and reports on things like typos, complexity, presence of a license, etc.

Shawn Smith and Herman Schaaf

How Is The Demand for Go Jobs?

A Reddit discussion around the Go job market - people’s experiences are quite mixed.

Reddit

An Intro to Concurrency Patterns in Go

A reasonably entry-level focus on the building blocks of concurrency in Go, channels and goroutines.

Laura Frank

RequestBin: Tests Outgoing HTTP Requests Initiated From A Function

Creates a mock server and passes the URL to the function to be tested and then collects all the requests that the server received.

Mohamed Bassem

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How to Dockerize your Go App tutorial

Caveman

Benchmarking Go vs Python opinion

Craig Weber

Unhelpful Abstractions opinion

Dave Cheney

How A Useless Feature Contribution Taught Me How to Use Go Forks opinion

David Allen

On Variable Declarations: Slices opinion

freeformz

Making Error Alerts Less Noisy and More Useful tools

Reduce false alarms and make sure that every error alert goes to the right person with Honeybadger.

Honeybadger.​io sponsored

xo: CLI Tool To Generate Go Types and Funcs from Database Schemas tools

KNQ

Nixy: Nginx Auto Configuration and Service Discovery for Mesos/Marathon code

Benjamin Mårtensson

Gru: A Simple Orchestration Framework Written in Go code

Marin Atanasov Nikolov

deb-simple: A Dead Simple apt Repo Server code

esell

Modd: A Flexible Tool for Responding to Filesystem Changes code

Aldo Cortesi

OVO: A Distributed In-Memory Cache and Key/Value Storage code

Massimo Zerbini

Gota: DataFrames and Data Wrangling for Go code

Alex Sánchez

Learn more about Codeship's new Continuous Delivery platform with Docker

Sign up for the free webinar hosted by Codeship co-founders Manuel Weiss and Florian Motlik here.

Codeship sponsored