---
title: "Go Newsletter Issue #127"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 127
published_at: "2016-09-15"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/127"
---

Go Newsletter 127   . 

[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/127) 

[Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 127 — September 15, 2016     

Featured [Proposal: Add ACME (LetsEncrypt, etc.) Support to net/http](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17053?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Core team member Brad Fitzpatrick wants HTTP support to be ‘dead simple out of the box’ with Go. Give the idea your thumbs up if you like his proposed example. Brad Fitzpatrick [7 Ways to Profile Go Applications](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h_NFBFrciI&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video In 30 minutes, see seven different ways to profile a running Go app along with the strengths and weaknesses of each. Dave Cheney [A Walkthrough of 'strconv'](https://medium.com/@benbjohnson/go-walkthrough-strconv-7a24632a9e73?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial The latest in Ben Johnson’s walkthrough of Go’s standard packages. This time, he looks at formatting primitives into strings quickly while maintaining strong type checking. Ben Johnson [Go Python Go](https://blog.heroku.com/see_python_see_python_go_go_python_go?c=7013A000000twUGQAY&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20-Cooper%20-Go%20-%20Blog%20-%20Go-Python-Go%20-%20Drop2&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=go) What’s the easiest way to speed up your Python server? By handling the requests with Go. See how Andrey Petrov did it (by using C in the middle). [Read More](https://blog.heroku.com/see_python_see_python_go_go_python_go?c=7013A000000twUGQAY&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20-Cooper%20-Go%20-%20Blog%20-%20Go-Python-Go%20-%20Drop2&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=go). Herokusponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/678189f5.png)](https://blog.heroku.com/see_python_see_python_go_go_python_go?c=7013A000000twUGQAY&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20-Cooper%20-Go%20-%20Blog%20-%20Go-Python-Go%20-%20Drop2&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=go) [5 Useful Ways to Use Closures in Go](http://www.calhoun.io/5-useful-ways-to-use-closures-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Explore five different real-world use cases for closures that will help you understand and utilize closures better in your own Go code. Jon Calhoun [dhcplb: Facebook's DHCP Load Balancer](https://github.com/facebookincubator/dhcplb?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Not many people _need_ a DHCP relayer, but Facebook use this in production and it’s interesting to see how teams at major companies are using Go. Facebook Incubator [Idiomatic Go Tricks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeetIgNeIkc&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video A walk through a selection of cool tips and tricks that make coding in Go even more fun. _27 minutes._ Mat Ryer Jobs [Get 5+ Engineering Job Offers in 1 Week](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-gonewsletter) With Hired, companies apply to hire you - get salary and equity offers before you interview from companies like Facebook, Postmates, & Square Hired.​com In Brief [An Interview with Go Developer Dave Cheney](https://www.dotconferences.com/blog/interviewing-dave-cheney/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Dave is speaking and doing a workshop at dotGo 2016. dotConferences [Go's Main Compiler Goes SSA](https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/776107314277339136?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news “Today the legacy backend starts getting deleted. Yay.” Brad Fitzpatrick on Twitter [Free (Women Only) Ultimate Go Workshop in SF (Oct 8-9)](http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Go/events/232670825/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Bill Kennedy [InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Time Series DB Written in Go](https://www.influxdata.com/influxdb-1-0-ga-released-a-retrospective-and-whats-next/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Paul Dix [vim-go 1.9 Released: The Go Development Plugin for Vim](https://github.com/fatih/vim-go/releases/tag/v1.9?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Fatih Arslan [Connecting R and Compose PostgreSQL](https://www.compose.com/articles/connecting-r-and-compose-postgresql/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=postgresql-and-r) tutorial Learn how to connect R, the language used by data scientists and statisticians, to PostgreSQL with RPostgreSQL and RPostgres. Composesponsored [Using Go with Redis: A Very Basic Intro](https://dinosaurscode.xyz/go/2016/09/13/using-go-with-redis/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Dinosaurscode [How to Use Google Cloud’s Free Structured Logging Service with Go](http://blog.bugreplay.com/post/150086459149/how-to-use-google-clouds-free-structured-logging?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial BugReplay [Creating a Bot using the Telegram Bot API](https://medium.com/@IndianGuru/creating-a-bot-using-the-telegram-bot-api-5d3caed3266d?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Satish Talim [Building Your Own Log-Based Message Queue in Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysjcEN548yc&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video Victor Ruiz [Managing and Scaling Real Time Data Pipelines using Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s5l9ErNL3s&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video Jennie Lees [WTF Was Wrong With My (Early) Go Code](https://medium.com/@lestrrat/wtf-was-wrong-with-my-go-code-a025fa7563c?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Daisuke Maki [Monitoring Go applications in real-time](https://www.datadoghq.com/monitor-go/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-GoWeekly&utm_content=Go) tools See custom app metrics in context with memory usage, GC, and metrics from across your stack. [Try Datadog today](https://www.datadoghq.com/monitor-go/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=CooperPress&utm_campaign=CooperPress-GoWeekly&utm_content=Go). Datadogsponsored [govvv: A Simple Go Binary Versioning Tool That Wraps 'go build'](https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/govvv?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Ahmet Alp Balkan [vuls: Vulnerability Scanner for Linux/FreeBSD, Written in Go](https://github.com/future-architect/vuls?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code future-architect [A Pure Go 'Balloon' Password Hashing Library](https://github.com/stargrave/balloon?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code [Balloon hashing](https://crypto.stanford.edu/balloon/) is a space-hard hashing function developed at Stanford. Sergey Matveev [Portmidi: Go Bindings to a Digital Media (MIDI, Video, Audio) Library](https://github.com/xlab/portmidi?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Includes an example of [a vocoder](https://github.com/xlab/portmidi/tree/master/example/vocoder) written in Go. Maxim Kupriianov [redlog: Redis-Style Logger for Go](https://github.com/tidwall/redlog?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code If you like how Redis’s output looks. Josh Baker [BORG: A Terminal-Based Search Engine for Bash Commands](https://github.com/crufter/borg?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Dobronszki János [Teleconsole: Tool to Share Your UNIX Terminal and Forward Local TCP Ports](https://github.com/gravitational/teleconsole?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Gravitational Inc [jsonapi: Utilities to Convert Go Data To and From the JSON API Format](https://github.com/smotes/jsonapi?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Steven Motes [sqlm: A Minimalist SQL Builder for Go](https://github.com/shuoli84/sqlm/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code shuo    

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