Golang Weekly Issue 106: April 21, 2016

Issue 106 — April 21, 2016

Featured

Shrink Your Go Binaries With These Tricks tutorial

Bait title aside, Filippo shows how to reduce a Go binary’s size more than 6x with some flags and common tools.

Filippo Valsorda

REST Layer: REST and GraphQL APIs Made Easy code

A very well documented REST API framework heavily inspired by Python Eve. Implemented as a net/http handler, it plays well with standard middleware.

Olivier Poitrey

Writing High Performance Go opinion

Useful slides from a talk given by Dave Cheney at GopherChina.

Dave Cheney

150x Faster SQL Analysis

Periscope plugs directly into your databases and lets you run, save and share analyses over billions of data rows in a second.

Periscope Data sponsored

Go 1.6.2 Released, a Minor Point Release news

Includes fixes to the compiler, runtime, tools, documentation, and the mime/multipart, net/http, and sort packages.

golang-announce

How To Deploy a Go Web Application with Docker tutorial

A very thorough guide to how Docker can improve the way you build, test, and deploy Go webapps.

Kulshekhar Kabra

Micro: A Terminal-based Text Editor code

A new, pure Go terminal based text editor with syntax highlighting, color, mouse and Unicode support.

Zachary Yedidia

The Most Seductive Keyword in Go: go tutorial

“If you can get through your first Go program without even trying out the go keyword, you have more self-control than I do.”

Brian Seitz

QOR 1.0: Libraries for Business Apps, CMSes, and E-Commerce code

Originally written in Ruby, now in Go. QOR includes things like media management, an admin interface, i18n, l10n, access control, etc, that you can use in your own business apps.

QOR

Jobs

Go make the world more secure

CrowdStrike is a security company focused on building the most advanced intelligence platform in the world. We use Go to help us get there, and are looking for a few good gophers to help us change the world. Interested?

CrowdStrike

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Hired.com

In Brief

Hack Roller Coaster Tycoon with Genetic Algorithms & Go at SIGNAL news

Join Kevin Burke (@ekrubnivek) of Shyp at SIGNAL to talk Roller Coaster Tycoon and Go.

Twilio sponsored

Leveraging Local Interfaces in Go tutorial

Dario Hamidi

JSON Management Patterns in Go tutorial

Brandon Okert