Golang Weekly Issue 138: December 8, 2016

Issue 138 — December 8, 2016

Featured

Go's Real-Time GC in Theory and Practice tutorial

How Go’s concurrent GC achieves low latencies in real-time systems, complete with an animated visualization of the algorithm involved.

Will Sewell

Writing Go Assembly Functions with PeachPy tutorial

A guide to using PeachPy, a Python-based assembly code generator, to write a module in assembly and then use it from a Go program.

Damian Gryski

A Visual Map of Your Redis Memory

Do you know what's taking up all your Redis memory? RedisMonitor creates an interactive map of your Redis memory to show you. Starts at just $7 per month.

RedisGreen sponsored

Mux: A Powerful URL Router and Dispatcher code

A request router and dispatcher for matching incoming requests to their respective handler. 5 minute screencast intro.

Gorilla web toolkit

Getting Started with BDD in Go using Ginkgo tutorial

A thorough tutorial demonstrating the use of Gingko for behavior driven development on a Go app.

Kulshekhar Kabra

Creating Random Strings in Go tutorial

A tutorial explaining how to create functions for creating random strings of varying length with custom character sets.

Jon Calhoun

Jobs

Go Senior Software Engineer (Palo Alto)

We’re the team building services in Go around our infrastructure (LBs, CMDBs, VM Infrastructure) to fully automate its management and boost the productivity of the organization. Isn’t that a big enough challenge?

Groupon

Don't Get Frustrated - Get Hired

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Hired

In Brief

A Look at Go 1.8's 'Plugins' news

A new approach for creating shared libraries.

Jeremy Daughhetee

Connection Pooling with MongoDB tutorial

We show you how using connection pooling you can massively improve the performance of your MongoDB deployment.

Compose sponsored

Using NATS Messaging with Some of Your Favorite Go Tools tutorial