Go 1.11 released, and some draft designs for a potential Go 2

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#226 — August 30, 2018 Read on the Web Golang Weekly Go 2 Draft Designs — A "draft design" is the precursor to an official proposal to change the language. The three draft designs here focus on error handling, error values, and…(wait for it)…generics! There's also a video explaining these developments. Google Go 1.11 Released — If they're going to release on Fridays, we might have to move the newsletter to Saturdays(!) :-) Nonetheless, the latest major release of Go is here and introduces both modules and experimental WebAssembly support. Full release notes here. Andrew Bonventre Data-Driven Guide to Level-Up Your Engineering Team 🚀 — We analyzed 10M+ commits & share how you can include data-driven insights to increase velocity. Empowering teams with deep git visibility to determine what's working, celebrate victories & quickly identify risks. Request a free trial. GitPrime sponsor Defer: Sweet, But No Syntactic Sugar — Sure, defer is a convenient language feature, but it changes the semantics of a function so you'd best know how and why. Julien Cretel Microsoft Announces Project Athens and GopherSource Involvement — Athens is a "Go module datastore and proxy" and GopherSource is an effort to strengthen the Go ecosystem by encouraging contributors to community projects. Microsoft HTTP/2 Adventure in the Go World — The Go standard library net/http package supports HTTP/2 now. Well, mostly. Eyal Posener GopherJS 1.11–1 Released — While Go 1.11 can compile to WebAssembly, GopherJS is more mature, established, and has plenty of utility left to use. GopherJS 1.11-1 adds support for Go 1.11 specifically. Dmitri Shuralyov 💻 Jobs Smart Mobility Gopher @ Be-Mobile — We build next-gen mobility solutions using Golang and Kubernetes. Join us in Ghent, Belgium. Be-Mobile Find A Go Job Through Vettery — Create a profile to connect with inspiring companies seeking Go devs. Vettery 📘 Tutorials & Articles Some Go Error Handling Practices — "a few error handling practices which improve the observability of a system and make debugging easier." Márk Sági-Kazár Build a Netflix Style Video Platform - Golang API Client Bitmovin sponsor Using Go Modules with Vendor Support on Travis CI Fatih Arslan Shrinking Go Binaries — Using tools like strip and upx (a "packer for executables") you can get some pretty solid reduction. John Ford Circuit Breaker and Retry — Examples of some common patterns for service-to-service communication that address resiliency. Dan Tran Go 1.11 and Beyond — Slides from a talk (and, yep, here's the video) at Go Northwest that show off the Go development schedule and reflects primarily on how language features are continuing to progress. Brad Fitzpatrick Do You Need Go Training or Help Building an Application in Go? Ardan Labs sponsor ▶  Painting With Light — Not a lot of code but a neat story about one developer's hobby project "tracing the paths of billions of photons with Go on cheap cloud hardware." Hunter Loftis ▶  A Panel With (Some of) the Go Team — An hour long panel question-led discussion between Filippo Valsorda, Andrew Bonventre, Cassandra Salisbury, and Steve Francia. GopherCon EU 2018 🔧 Tools & Code wasmgo: Compiles Go to WASM and Serves Locally or Deploys to a CDN Dave Brophy BuzzFeed Open Sources Its 'sso' Authentication Proxy — It's how they secure access to internal services at BuzzFeed and is written in Go(lang). Shraya Ramani Vegeta: An HTTP Load Testing Tool — Now supports HTTP/2 too. Tomás Senart Catch Go Errors Before Users Do — Detect Go production errors in real-time, then debug them within minutes. ROLLBAR sponsor GopherCon 2018 Performance Tuning Workshop — The code, exercises, and schedule of Dave Cheney's Performance Tuning workshop from GopherCon. Dave Cheney Fleep: Quick File Format Determination in Go — Recognizes about 100 formats based on magic numbers it expects to find at certain offsets into the file. Mykyta Paliienko Strobfus: Obfuscate Strings Within Your Go Binaries — Essentially security through obscurity, but possibly useful to hide less dangerous data. Zenly Colly 1.1 Released: A Fast and Elegant Web Scraping Framework Colly GoCV: Computer Vision in Go using OpenCV 3+ — We've linked this before but the latest version is just out. The Hybrid Group

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