#166: The State of Go with Francesc Campoy

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Go Newsletter Issue 166 — June 29, 2017

Featured The State of Go with Francesc Campoy   video  In a 20 minute talk, Francesc gave his latest update on where Go is at, upcoming changes to the language, and the growth of our community. Gopherfest 2017 For Range Semantics Bill Kennedy looks at how the for range statement provides both a value and pointer semantic form and the mechanics around this. William Kennedy Go 1.9 Beta 2 Released Stay up to date with what’s new in 1.9 with the draft release notes and be sure to file issues for problems you encounter. Chris Broadfoot Docker for Windows, Linux and Mac In this free eBook you will get an overview of Docker’s new native applications for Windows and Mac, alongside tips and gotchas on how to use Docker on these platforms. Codeship   sponsored  Leveraging Interfaces in Go Runs through an example using an interface from the standard library to enforce the data requirements of an application. Tamizhvendan S A C++ Developer Looks At Go The first installment of a series looking at the design and choices of Go from the perspective of a C/C++ developer. Murray Cumming Stencil: Simple Code Templating for Go Another approach at bringing some of the benefits of generics to Go using code generation. Sridhar Venkatakrishnan Jobs Golang Developer - Elastic/Beats Team (Remote) We're looking for a Developer to join our Beats team to help maintain the Beats, create new ones, and show support to the community. Elastic Get Your Next Go Job Faster. Get Access to 6,000 Companies. Say goodbye to the pain of job hunting. Get Hired today Hired In Brief Google App Engine Adds (Beta) Support for Go 1.8   news  Google Cloud Platform Gogland EAP 10 (JetBrains' Go IDE) Adds Go 1.9 Support   news  JetBrains Working with Ethernet Frames from Go   tutorial  Matt Layher Multiplexing Golang Channels to Maximize Throughput   tutorial  Using a tidy file format and Golang's concurrency, our new backup & restore tools are faster, simpler, & more featureful. MongoDB   sponsored  Compile-Time Checking for Deadlocks and Channel Panics   tutorial  Based on a research paper, the post uses two tools (MiGo and Gong) to find concurrency issues at compile time. Emil Hessman Writing Expressive Tests with Ginkgo and Gomega   tutorial  Ginkgo is a BDD framework and Gomega is a set of assertions and matchers. Lanre-Adelowo Basic Testing Patterns in Go   tutorial  Agrea Searching for Unprotected Redis Instances with Go   tutorial  Gökberk Yaltıraklı goman: The Missing Man Pages for Go Binaries   tools  A tool that fetches the README file for Go binaries from one of many possible locations and formats the page in the terminal. Applied Go $20 Free Credit on a New Account Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Use promo code GO20 for $20 credit. linode   sponsored  Badger: A Super Fast Key-Value Store in Native Go   code  Dgraph tcpproxy: Build TCP Proxies with Optional Routing Facilities   code  GitHub repo. Brad Fitzpatrick HyperLogLog: An Improved HyperLogLog Implementation for Go   code  Axiom, Inc.​ pREST: Serve A RESTful API From Any Postgres Database   code  Nuveo graceful: Graceful Shutdown of Go 1.8+ Servers using Server.Shutdown   code  TV4 hutplate: A net/http Wrapper With Extra Functionality   code  Adds functions for sessions, HTTP error handling, flash messages, etc. Muhammad Usman Liblb: A Study and Replication of 4 Load Balancing Algorithms in Go   code  Khalid Lafi Hermes: A Minimalist, Easy to Deploy, Dependency Free File Server   code  George Hosu Go Newsletter is curated by Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich Read this issue on the Web See our archives Change your email address Stop getting this newsletter Published by Cooperpress Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK