#186: Eight Years of Go

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Golang Weekly Issue 186 — November 16, 2017

Featured Celebrating 8 Years of Go While Go was created ten years ago, it became an open source project in 2009. In that time, it’s become a popular language with a great community. Steve Francia Go, Don't Collect My Garbage An extreme benchmarking of Go on a 24 core machine to find the optimum environment values and number of goroutines. Cloudflare Blog A Look At The New 'pprof' User Interface In Go 1.10, pprof will come with a new Web-based UI, but you can already try it out if you want. JBD Quickly Identify Errors in Your Query Syntax Thanks to Syntax Highlighting with PMM Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source database monitoring and performance optimization tool for MySQL & MongoDB. PMM builds upon other popular open source projects and deploys locally. Percona   sponsored  'Learn To Code The Go Programming Language': A New Course Google’s Community Outreach Working Group and GreaterCommons have teamed up to release a free Go course. GreaterCommons Error Handling in Go “There are significant pain points related to error handling in other languages, and if Go is a little bit verbose about it - that’s the lesser evil by far.” Tit Petric How Discord Resizes 150 Million Images Every Day with Go & C++ How a popular chat app amongst gamers handles images sent through the system. Discord Blog fx: A Lightweight Serverless Framework Based on Docker Written in Go, but supports all major languages for the underlying functions offered as a service. H.​ Minghe Jobs Interested in Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and Crypto? If so, we at Decred would love to make your acquaintance. We offer a fast paced environment where you will never get bored hacking on cool tech. Decred 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 Basic AST Manipulation in Go   tutorial  Using the AST tools in Go to parse and modify a source file. Mario Zupan Understanding Go Panic Output   tutorial  Go explodes parameters in the stacktrace based on their data type which can be confusing. Joe Shaw An Introduction to gosiris, An Actor Framework for Go   tutorial  Teiva Harsanyi A Deep Introduction to bufio.Scanner   tutorial  ..for processing a stream of data by splitting it into tokens. Michał Łowicki Understanding SOLID Principles: The Interface Segregation Principle   tutorial  The fourth in the series on SOLID principles using examples in Go. Fanis Despoudis Foldable Go   tutorial  An attempt to write some functional constructs to replace for loops. Zendesk Engineering Set Up a Netflix Style Streaming Service with Golang Cloud or On-Premise encoding solution on Kubernetes and Docker. MPEG-DASH, HLS, VP9, HEVC, Multi-DRM, VoD or Live. Bitmovin   sponsored  Why We're Building A Blockchain in Go   story  Karachain Learning Go by Porting A Medium-Sized Web Backend from Python   story  Ben Hoyt Plotting Latency Distributions with gonum   video  gonum is a group of numeric libraries for Go. Francesc Campoy 6 Simple Tools to Improve Your Go Code   tools  Brief overviews of tools that, mostly, perform static analysis of code. Rémy Mathieu prealloc: Find Slice Declarations That Could Potentially Be Preallocated   tools  Alex Kohler dgw: Generate Go Structs and Functions from Postgres Tables   tools  Akira Chiku Gophercises: Free Coding Exercises for Budding Gophers   tools  Jon Calhoun $100 Credit on a New Semaphore CI Account   tools  Hosted CI/CD that's 91% faster than the competition. Sign up for free and use code GOPHEMBER17 to get your credit. Semaphore   sponsored  Minify: Go Minifiers for Web Formats (CSS, HTML, JSON, etc.)   code  An update in the past week has made it a lot faster than before. Taco de Wolff mchain: A Minimalistic Library for Middleware Chaining   code  Prasanna V.​ Loganathar gonfig: Go Package for Program Configuration   code  Take config values from a file, env variables, and cmd line flags. Steven Roose 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