Issue #144: Go Newsletter Issue #144

Go Newsletter 144

Issue 144 — January 26, 2017

Featured

Dep: A Prototype Go Dependency Management Tool tools

A Go prototype dependency management tool that’s recently been made public — still in pre-alpha, but available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

The Go Authors

Ponzu: CMS with Automatic JSON API for 'Thick Client' Frontends code

An ‘all in one’ content management system with editor, admin dashboard, automatic HTTPS, HTTP/2, and JSON API. Needs Go 1.8+.

Ponzu

Go 1.9 Planning and Kick-Off Week (Feb 6-10) news

Specific developments for Go 1.9 should begin on February 1st and a team of Google employees who aren’t on the Go team will be spending Feb 6-10 contributing to Go projects. You’re encouraged to join them.

Brad Fitzpatrick

Explore your memory use over time with RedisGreen

RedisGreen's hosting and monitoring service maps your memory usage and tracks how keys in your database behave over time.

Redisgreen sponsored

What I Don't Like About Error Handling in Go opinion

.. and how to work around it. The author reflects on a lack of stack traces and the overall verbosity of error handling.

Andrew Morgan

Making The Move From Scala to Go opinion

Why Movio chose to migrate from Scala to Go and rewrite part of their Scala codebase to Go.

Mariano Gappa

Building a Blog Engine API with GraphQL, Go and Postgres tutorial

A look at the concerns around designing a simple blogging API, considering both GraphQL and traditional REST-based approaches.

Alexandru Topliceanu

How to Use Slice Capacity and Length in Go tutorial

Learn about the difference between capacity and length and how to properly use these concepts.

Jon Calhoun

chromedp: Drive Browsers via the Chrome Debugging Protocol code

Drive browsers from Go with no external dependencies like Selenium or PhantomJS required.

KNQ

Gopherize.me: Create Your Own Go Gopher

A fun web app based around Go’s popular gopher, as designed by Renee French. Pick some eyes, t-shirt, glasses, and make your own.

Mat Ryer

Jobs

Backend Software Engineer (Zürich, Switzerland)

Centralway are seeking an experienced programmer to come and join the team. The right candidate will be responsible for the continuous development and improvement of the backend and service architecture of Centralway Numbrs. Apply here.

Centralway Numbrs AG

In Brief

Using the AWS SDK for Go’s Regions and Endpoints Metadata tutorial

Release v1.6.0 of the AWS SDK for Go added Regions and Endpoints metadata. This enables you to easily enumerate the metadata and discover Regions, Services, and Endpoints.

Amazon

Writing A Successful GopherCon Proposal tutorial

The CFP closes next Monday.

Dave Cheney

Compile-Time Assertions in Go tutorial

The author says you probably shouldn’t do this but it’s interesting to know about.

Josh Bleecher Snyder

Go Serverless with Apex and Compose's MongoDB tutorial

We look at Apex, a tool for extending AWS's Lambda service to languages beyond Java, JavaScript and Python, such as Go.

Compose sponsored

Why Should You Learn Go? opinion

“Go will be the server language of the future.” — Tobias Lütke, Shopify.