#174: Why Go Scales - Concurrency in Go vs Elsewhere

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Golang Weekly Issue 174 — August 24, 2017

Featured goderive: A Next Generation Code Generator for Go A tool that parses your code for functions that are not yet implemented and generates the boilerplate for them. Walter Schulze Context Isn't for Cancellation Joining other experience reports on the subject, this one proposes decoupling lifetime management from context.Context. Dave Cheney Why Go Scales: Concurrency in Go vs Elsewhere   video  A 40 minute talk from GoWayFest 2017 digging into the internals of Go’s concurrency model, how it interacts with the OS, and how it compares to other approaches. Eyal Post End-to-end visibility into Go apps Visualize and alert on custom metrics. Optimize performance with distributed tracing + interactive flame graphs. Datadog   sponsored  Embedding Data in Go Executables How to embed your static assets into a Go binary using a combination of go generate and go-bindata. Tit Petric Securing Cookies in Go Make sure your cookies are safe from theft, tampering, leaking, and other common cookie attack vectors. Jon Calhoun Why Go Is My Favorite Programming Language A developer with a background in C, Perl and Delphi shares his thoughts on why Go is great. Michael Stapelberg Function Failure Reporting: Error Vs Bool An in-depth look at function failure reporting conventions used today and which one should be the default. Eyal Posener Jobs Senior Go Engineer - Data Science Platform We're looking for a Go engineer for a data science environment supporting data scientists all the way from exploring data to deploying models. Contiamo Take Your Career To The Next Level. Get Access to the Best Jobs on Hired Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In Brief Serving HTTPS with Go   tutorial  Covers situations where a certificate exists or auto-management of certificates via something like Let’s Encrypt. Pocket Gophers The Asterisk and The Ampersand: An Introduction to Pointers in Go   tutorial  Camilla Montonen Using New Relic with Go   tutorial  How to instrument your Go code to capture transaction, database, and external call metrics. Jimmy John Build a RESTful API Microservice with Go   tutorial  Marshall Shen Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications Is your application easy to monitor in production? Many applications are, but sadly, some are designed with observability as an afterthought. VividCortex   sponsored  Latency Matters: Go vs Python   story  Measuring the latency involved when using a script within a shell prompt. Stefan Majewsky Go vs .NET Core in Terms of HTTP Performance   opinion  Gerasimos Maropoulos Is Anything Better Than Using 'if err != nil {return err;}' Everywhere?   opinion  Reddit Protocol Buffers: Avoid These Uses   opinion  As programmers flock to protobufs, here are some thoughts about when not to use them. John Doak Speed up builds by up to 300% with Codeship Pro’s new Docker Image Caching Beta users reduced their build times significantly. Learn more and find out how our engineers worked on the feature. Codeship   sponsored  Realize: Go Build System with File Watchers, Live Reload and Output Streams   tools  github.​com pg: A Postgres Featured Oriented Client and ORM for Go   code  Vladimir Mihailenco goformation: A Go Library for Working with CloudFormation Templates   code  Amazon Web Services Labs NVIDIA Docker: Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging NVIDIA GPUs   code  NVIDIA Corporation Golang Weekly 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