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Issue 136 — November 17, 2016

The Go Newsletter is taking a break next week due to Thanksgiving in the US :-) We'll see you again on December 1st.

Featured
Go Fonts: New Fonts Specifically Designed for Go Code   news 
A new, high quality family of open source fonts has been designed specifically for the Go project.
Nigel Tao, Chuck Bigelow and Rob Pike
Do Not Fear First Class Functions
A look at why Dave considers Go’s support of first class functions to be ‘a gift’, what they are, and how you can use them. A video of the talk is also available.
Dave Cheney
IronFunctions: A Go-Powered Serverless Microservices Platform   tools 
Want to play with serverless microservices without using AWS? This is a Go-powered option that’s open source, so you can download and self-host.
Iron.​io
Go Beyond Stacktraces. Understand the 'Why' Behind Application Errors. Free to Try.
Capture the complete state of your Go applications at the time of error. See all goroutines and variables. Inspect what's waiting in your channels. Gain deep insight into your application and take control of your errors.
backtrace.​io   sponsored 
Putting Eval in Go: Building an Interpreter
A fun look at implementing a simple interpreter in Go in relatively few lines of code thanks to Go’s own internal parsing tools.
Thorsten Ball
Slice Comparison in Go
Testing two slices for value equality is a more complicated task than you might think. Here’s one way to do it, including a cool trick.
Tapir Games
Connecting to a PostgreSQL Database with database/sql
A tutorial showing how to connect to a Postgres database using database/sql and lib/pq, including potential errors and solutions.
Jon Calhoun
A Whirlwind Tour of Go's Runtime Environment Variables
Resurfacing some gold from a year ago.
Dave Cheney
Jobs
Go Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA)
We’re seeking opinionated engineers to join our team building an infrastructure-as-code tool unlike any you’ve seen before, powering the expansion of the world’s largest cloud datacenter footprint.
Amazon.​com
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In Brief
A Simple Go HTTP Request 'Context' Example   tutorial 
Paul Fortin
Overriding a Struct Method (sort of..)   tutorial 
Sina Siadat
Rate Limiting The Right Way with Token Buckets   tutorial 
Tarka Labs
Go in the Workplace - Improving Efficiency with Technology   story 
Some real world insights from a company that switched to Go.
Joseph Spurrier
Go Race Condition Trivia   story 
A look at a race condition scenario. Can you spot the problem yourself?
Jack Lindamood
Email API from SendGrid   tools 
Reliably deliver your emails with a quick and simple API or SMTP integration. Try for Free
SendGrid   sponsored 
Lint: Run Linters From Go Code   tools 
surullabs
Encrypted Configuration in Go   tools 
Charlie Revett
dboxserver: Serve Files From Dropbox over HTTPS   code 
Caches. Uses Dropbox’s API.
Sajal Kayan
TypeReact: A Minimal TypeScript/React/Go Starter Kit   code 
Blink Analytics
randmap: Random Map Access and Iteration   code 
Luke Champine
Funnel: Process Logs From stdout, a la 12 Factor   code 
Agniva De Sarker
Steamroller: Self Hosted Simulcasting to Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook   code 
Dustin Blackman
fasthttp: A Fast HTTP Package for Go   code 
Launched a year ago, it’s still being updated frequently.
Aliaksandr Valialkin
go-redis-bytestream: Store and Retrieve Streaming Data in Redis Via io.Reader and io.Writer Utilities   code 
Orion Labs
Mmock: HTTP Mocking App for Testing and Fast Prototyping   code 
Jordi Martin
grx: Reactive Extensions for Go   code 
Joe Chasinga
Database management tools for MySQL
Learn to use Workbench, Sequel Pro, DBeaver. Manage your database easily without having to run a command line.
Compose   sponsored 
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