--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #122" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 122 published_at: "2016-08-11" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/122" --- Go Newsletter 122 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/122) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 122 — August 11, 2016 Featured [Building Webapps and Microservices Using Gin](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/building-go-web-applications-and-microservices-using-gin?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A thorough step by step tutorial for getting familiar with Gin, a Go framework that will help you reduce boilerplate code and build a request handling pipeline. Kulshekhar Kabra [A Walkthrough of Go's 'bytes' and 'strings' Packages](https://medium.com/@benbjohnson/go-walkthrough-bytes-strings-packages-499be9f4b5bd?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Byte slices and strings are fundamental primitives in most Go programs - what’s the difference and what do these packages have to offer for everyday coding? Ben Johnson [Go 1.7 Release Candidate 6 Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/veQCER89M8c/44nryIM1EAAJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news The final release of 1.7 has been pushed back to next Monday (August 15). Chris Broadfoot [RAM increased across all plans. Now get 2GB of RAM for only $10/mo.](http://welcome.linode.com/go-weekly?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=primary&utm_term=go&utm_campaign=go-weekly) Linode offers a simple, easy and powerful platform to host your next project. Now you can get 2GB of RAM for only $10/mo. Want to get started? 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Ben Johnson [Staticfiles: Embed a Directory of Files in Your Go Binary](https://github.com/bouk/staticfiles?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Provides functions to open the embedded files from within your code or serve them over HTTP. Bouke van der Bijl [Checkup: A Distributed, Self-Hosted Health Checker](https://sourcegraph.github.io/checkup/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Sourcegraph sponsored Matt Holt, creator of [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/), to build a tool for doing server health checks in a developer-friendly way. It’s written in Go. [GitHub.](https://github.com/sourcegraph/checkup) Sourcegraph Jobs [We’re building a bank with microservices (Backend Engineer, London, UK)](https://boards.greenhouse.io/mondo/jobs/244898?t=d0hqug) Come and help us! We’d love to chat to creative engineers who are intrigued by the idea of building a bank from scratch in Go. We're a small, friendly team, and we can help you relocate to London. 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