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Issue 103 — March 31, 2016
Featured
Brad Fitzpatrick's GopherCon India 2016 Keynote   video 
In a talk titled “Introducing Go 1.6: Asymptomatically Approaching Boring”, the Go core team’s Brad Fitzpatrick looked at both the history and future of Go.
YouTube
LeftPad and Go: Can Tooling Help?   tools 
Go-flavored reflections on a recent Node.js-related drama when a developer deleted a popular dependency from the core npm repository. ‘depscheck’ is a tool for finding needlessly trivial dependencies in Go programs.
Ivan Daniluk
Go real-time
Track any metric via the expvar package, then instantly graph, set alerts, and correlate custom Go metrics with performance metrics from across your stack.
Datadog   sponsored 
LARS: A Fast Zero Allocation HTTP Router for Go   code 
Aims to solely be a fast, extensible HTTP router you can use for creating your own frameworks.
Go Playgound
26 Videos from GopherConIndia 2016   video 
GopherConIndia took place in February and a batch of well produced videos are now up, including Audrey Lim’s Gopher Tricks in Production and Verónica López’s Building a Product with Go Mobile.
YouTube
Writing A Very Fast Cache Service with Millions of Entries in Go   story 
A look at how a team approached the task of writing a fast caching service using Go.
Łukasz Drumiński, Tomasz Janiszewski
Building Helpful CLI Tools with Go and Kingpin   tutorial 
A look at building a CLI with shell completion hints using Kingpin for argument and flag parsing.
Nicholas Whyte
Gogetdoc, A Tool for Providing Go Documentation to Editors   tools 
“I’ve been working on a tool that uses the go/types package to identify the item under the cursor and get documentation for it.” Still under development, but there’s a basic Atom package available to try.
Zac Bergquist
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In Brief
Go Tip Compile Times Improving Significantly   news 
Compile times increased significantly from Go 1.4 to 1.5, but work being done on the latest builds is having a big effect on redressing the situation.
Dave Cheney
Error monitoring for Go just leveled up!   news 
This week Honeybadger released some big improvements to their Go client, which reports panics and errors from Go applications.
Honeybadger.​io   sponsored 
go-github Now 4x Faster   news 
Filippo Valsorda
Go Vendoring Beginner Tutorial   tutorial 
Paul Fortin
Writing a Text Adventure Game in Go - Part 2   tutorial 
Paul Fortin
Building Web Services in Go   tutorial 
Start from the basics of responding to HTTP requests and continue with techniques for delivering world class web services. Learn how to build a JSON API, decode and validate the inputs, write your own middleware, and more.
Outlearn   sponsored 
Making The Switch From Node.js to Golang   opinion 
The tale of how and why a software engineer at Digg switched to Go, before concluding “For now, Digg is going the way of the Gopher.”
Alexandra Grant
Unwinding Uber’s Most Efficient Service   opinion 
Buck Heroux
GoJava: Java Bindings for Go Packages   tools 
Sridhar Venkatakrishnan
Pagoda: A Simple Template Manager   code 
Lenny Kean
Introducing Lint, a Pocket Terminal App written in Go   code 
Davey McGlade
color: Extend fmt.Printf with Verbs for Producing Colored Output   code 
Anmol Sethi
stm: Software Transactional Memory in Go   code 
Luke Champine
Concert: CLI Tool for Obtaining and Managing TLS Certificates with ACME CAs   code 
Minio Cloud Storage
STRUM: A Linux Diagnostic Tool   code 
Tool to diagnose issues using system and process info, CPU, IO, networking, etc.
Acksin
Rendering Fractals Concurrently with Go   code 
An experimental remix of a program from The Go Programming Language.
Peter H.​ Froehlich
RSS Puppy: A Watchdog Tool for Monitoring RSS Feeds   code 
Jesus Moreno
Strillone: Incoming Webhooks for Republishing Events to Slack (or Elsewhere)   code 
Can be very easily deployed to Heroku.
Aetrion LLC
Music Theory: Go models of Notes, Scales, Chords and Keys   code 
Music Theory
go-apns2: Go Package for the HTTP/2 Apple Push Notification Service   code 
Spiros Gerokostas
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