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Issue 109 — May 12, 2016
Featured
Awesome Go LibHunt: Curated Go Tools and Libraries   tools 
Hundreds of Go resources (mostly libraries and tools hosted on GitHub) organized into categories and sorted by ‘popularity score’.
Libhunt
Go 1.7 Observed Performance Changes   news 
Go 1.7 is still in the pipeline, but you can already check out some benchmarks showing how performance has changed in the latest canary builds.
Brian Hatfield
httpexpect: Helps You Write Nice Tests for Your HTTP API   code 
httpexpect provides an API for elegantly writing tests for HTTP-based APIs.
Victor Gaydov
Kraken.io: Integrate your site with the most robust image optimization API
Kraken.io offers a robust, fully-featured image optimization and manipulation API. Remove image bloat from your service and free yourself from writing tedious imaging code. Sign up free and try out our Go package or one of our other integrations.
kraken.​io   sponsored 
How Go and Neo4j Enabled The FT to Deliver at Speed   video 
A 20 minute talk by Dan Murphy of the Financial Times about how they shifted to a Neo4j and Go-powered, microservices-based system.
YouTube
Rewriting the Gophers Invite Form in Go   tutorial 
Gophers is a popular Slack community for Go developers but its signup form was based on a Node.js system. Here’s how it was ported purely to Go.
Kristoffer Berdal
Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot   podcast 
A 36 minute chat with two members of the Go core team on why Go is finding success in the cloud.
Google Cloud Platform Podcast
Test Fixtures in Go   tutorial 
A description of "how you can use test fixtures, data files on disk, with the Go testing package"
Dave Cheney
Jobs
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In Brief
Remote Go Meetups   news 
GoBridge
Understanding Go's `nil` Value   tutorial 
Gmarik Info
The Performance of Green Threads and Why It Matters   opinion 
As provided by goroutines.
Martin Sústrik
Manul: Yet Another Vendoring Tool for Go Programs   tools 
Claims to avoid the reasons other vendoring tools “suck”.
Egor Kovetskiy
Stop building APIs!   tools 
Auto-generate REST APIs from any SQL/NoSQL database. Supports V8js, Node.js, PHP, and Python. Open source, active community.
DreamFactory   sponsored 
Freeze: An Immutability Helper   code 
Enables the freezing of data, similar to JavaScript’s Object.freeze() - frozen objects cannot then be modified further.
Luke Champine
doctl: A Command Line Tool for DigitalOcean's Services   code 
DigitalOcean
go-flagz: Dynamic Flag Management for Go   code 
Dynamic, thread-safe flag variables that can be modified at runtime via etcd.
Michal Witkowski
gogen-avro: Generate Go Code to Serialize and Deserialize Avro Schemas   code 
Alan Gardner
tiles: A Map Tiling Library Written in Pure Go   code 
buck heroux
Sqrape: Query-Based Scraping with CSS and Go Reflection   code 
A library that uses struct ‘tags’ to access and extract data from HTML.
Cathal Garvey
smlr: Re-Encode JPEG Images with No Perceivable Quality Loss   code 
Jason Mooberry
Rack: Open-Source PaaS on AWS, using Go   code 
Provides a developer-focused API for building and deploying apps on ECS in an isolated VPC.
convox
Nihongo: Open Source Japanese Dictionary Written in Go   code 
GoJP
NetTop: A Simple Command Line Bandwidth Monitor in Go   code 
cs8425
Teleport: A Trigger-Based Postgres Replicator Written in Go   code 
Pagar.​me
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