#179: A Look Back at 10 Years of Go

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Golang Weekly Issue 179 — September 28, 2017

Featured 10 Years and Climbing for Go A look back on the birth and stratospheric growth of Go on its tenth anniversary, including the initial contributors and companies that started it all. Rob Pike Monads for Go Programmers A marathon post introducing functors and monads along with use cases written in Go. Walter Schulze Could You Write An OS Kernel in Go?   video  The answer is yes, and here we get to see how, culminating in some Go code that runs at the lowest level within QEMU. Achilleas Anagnostopoulos Test and Deploy your large Monoliths with Codeship Basic Speed up your CI builds thanks to dedicated infrastructure, parallel test pipelines and efficient caching. Join customers like CNN, Whole Foods, InvisionApp, and more. Codeship   sponsored  Baloo 2.0: Expressive End-to-End HTTP API Testing Made Easy Check this example code to see how easy it is. Tomás Aparicio imgproxy: An Image Resizing Service Written in Go A framework-agnostic microservice to handle image resizing needs quickly and securely. Martian Chronicles Prose: Text Processing, Tokenization, and Tagging Library Can do things like part-of-speech tagging, convert text to Title Case, and basic summarization. Joseph Kato Jobs Distributed Systems Engineer at Ably (Remote in EU) If consensus algorithms get your mental juices flowing, then come join the team behind a global & fault-tolerant messaging platform. Ably realtime Want to Build The Future? Get Hired Today Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In Brief GOMAXPROCS Limit To Be Eliminated   news  Won’t affect many but if you have 1000s of logical processors… (it can happen) github.​com [eBook] The Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Driven Apps with Go This book contains years of wisdom from experts & the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database with Go. VividCortex   sponsored  Why Use Pointers?   tutorial  Three scenarios of when a pointer can be the right call. Pocket Gophers Stream and Recognize People From a Webcam with Go and Facebox   tutorial  With a little Python, some Go, and the Facebox SDK it’s possible to know who is looking at your camera. Machine Box Things to Know About Using net/http   tutorial  Using httputil to debug requests, elegantly using the request body, and wrapping and testing handlers. Tit Petric Pipeline Patterns in Go   tutorial  Three pipeline use cases are demonstrated including error handling and context cancellation. Claudio Fahey Go vs Rust? Choose Go   opinion  It really boils down to ramp-up time and getting productive quickly. Matthias Endler See every Go app, every server, and every container in one place Get full-stack monitoring with Datadog. Full support for Go apps, plus 200+ infrastructure integrations. Datadog   sponsored  ev: Explore The Evolution of A Function in Your Browser   tools  Gabriel Aszalos Lile: Easily Create gRPC Services in Go   code  Lile Mage: A Make/rake-like Build Tool using Go   code  Nate Finch Gonum: Packages for Numeric and Scientific Algorithms   code  Gonum Triangle: Convert Images to Computer Generated Art   code  .. using Delaunay triangulation. Endre Simó GoTracer: A Go Raytracing Implementation Weekend Project   code  Dheerendra Rathor zenrpc: JSON-RPC 2.0 Server Implementation Written in Go   code  Includes Service Mapping Description support. SEMrush 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