--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #116" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 116 published_at: "2016-06-30" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/116" --- Go Newsletter 116 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/116) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 116 — June 30, 2016 Featured [Gophers, Please Tag Your Releases](http://dave.cheney.net/2016/06/24/gophers-please-tag-your-releases?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Go projects ‘don’t have versions, at least not in the way that our friends in other languages use that word.’ Dave wants to improve the situation by encouraging us all to tag our releases. Dave Cheney [Data-Driven / Parameterized Tests in Go](http://elliot.land/go-data-driven-parameterized-tests?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Elliot got tired of writing boiler-plate code for his tests, and here he takes a look at Go 1.7’s ‘named tests’ and Gingko’s table driven tests. Elliot Chance [The Complete Guide to net/http Timeouts](https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-complete-guide-to-golang-net-http-timeouts/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial “When writing an HTTP server or client in Go, timeouts are amongst the easiest and most subtle things to get wrong..” Filippo Valsorda [See inside your Redis database. New memory mapping from RedisGreen](http://www.redisgreen.net/memory-analysis/index.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=inside+memory+map) RedisGreen builds a map of your Redis memory usage, tracking the size of keys over time, helping you track down problems and gain new insights. 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Emir Pasic [Analyzing Go Code with BigQuery](https://medium.com/@francesc/analyzing-go-code-with-bigquery-485c70c3b451?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) story Google’s BigQuery now has all of the public code on GitHub as a dataset you can query against, so Francesc dug into some interesting Go-related stats. Francesc Campoy [Why Go’s Structs Are Superior to Class-Based Inheritance](https://medium.com/@simplyianm/why-gos-structs-are-superior-to-class-based-inheritance-b661ba897c67?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial _“Go has two awesome features that make its model of polymorphism way more powerful than classical inheritance: interfaces and struct embedding.”_ Ian Macalinao [Dynamic Image Resizing in Go by Seam Carving](http://parellagram.com/posts/carving?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Seam carving allows for an image to be resized without simply cropping or scaling the original image. 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