#181: Building a Neural Net from Scratch in Go

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Golang Weekly Issue 181 — October 12, 2017

Featured GoCV: OpenCV-Powered Computer Vision from Go Gain access to the latest OpenCV (a popular system for computer vision) from Go. See a simple face detection example. GoCV Building a Neural Net from Scratch in Go A neural net to classify iris flowers to predict the species of the flower based on width and length measurements. Daniel Whitenack Say Hello to 'Goodbye': Global Exit Handlers for Go Goodbye adds global error handlers to Go allowing you to capture exit signals and clean up after your code. Andrew Kutz Why It’s Important That Big Organizations Pay Attention to CI Yes, “digital transformation” is a buzzword having its moment right now. But what is behind the buzz? CircleCI   sponsored  A Potential Solution for Generics Someone has created a “generics” package in Go that helps communicate that a generic function or variable is being used. Kris Nova Analyzing Production Systems using pprof and Flamegraphs   video  A practical look at profiling using the pprof profiler and flamegraph visualizations by a tech lead at Uber. “..the best overview on Go profiling that I’ve seen,” says one commenter. Prashant Varanasi An In-Depth Look at a Docker and ECS Stack for Go How ‘SMS Junk Filter’ builds its software using multi-stage Docker builds on AWS’s Elastic Container Service. SMS Junk Filter Cthulhu: How DigitalOcean Organizes Code in a Mono Repo The path, processes, and challenges of working on a large mono repo containing over 2 million lines of Go code. DigitalOcean Go Testing at Stream How Stream does unit and integration testing, including service mocking and a new BDD testing package. Stream Jobs Senior Golang Developer Teamwork.com is an incredible place to work - check out our story: here Teamwork.​com Platform Engineer [API, Golang] Beme (NYC) is looking for an engineer to join us in creating the next generation of apps for newshounds. Small Team. Big Impact. Beme Looking for a job at a company that prioritizes Go? Try Vettery and we’ll connect you directly with thousands of companies looking for talented back-end devs. Vettery In Brief Go 1.10 To Support Building Windows DLLs   news  Link is just to a relevant commit. Go Source $20 Free on a new Linode account Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. Linode Cloud Hosting   sponsored  Using Go Channels to Build a Site Crawler   tutorial  How to create a list of channels that processes and tracks progress for a queue of links. Jorin Vogel 3 Examples For Using io.Pipe   tutorial  Mario Zupan Build a Serverless Go Function with OpenFaaS   tutorial  Alex Ellis A Visual Guide to Go Constants   tutorial  Learn Go Programming Go Observability: Using the Pprof Web UI to Debug Memory Usage   tutorial  Nathan Leclaire A Look at Alternative Go Build Modes   video  Including c-archive, c-shared, shared, pie, and plugin. David Crawshaw A List of Every Go User Group   tools  Meet with fellow gophers. Add your own group if it’s not on yet. github.​com Diagram: A Go App to Convert ASCII Art Into Hand Drawn Diagrams   tools  Endre Simó The Ultimate Guide to Building Database Driven Apps with Go This book contains years of wisdom from experts and the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database with Go. VividCortex   sponsored  Litter: A Pretty Printer for Go Data Structures   code  Handy for debugging and testing. Sanity Wow: Beautiful Spinners and Emojis for Go Command-Line Apps   code  Geofrey Ernest myhttp: Simple HTTP GET Request Tool with Timeout Support   code  Inanc Gumus Brook: A Cross-Platform Proxy/VPN Written in Go   code  txthinking 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