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Issue 140 — December 22, 2016
Featured

In this final issue of the year, we look back at the most popular Go news and links of 2016. We hope you have a happy holiday season and we'll see you in 2017 :-)

Go Best Practices, Six Years in
A great set of insights and tips from an experienced Go developer. This got a lot of love on social media and is a must read.
Peter Bourgon
What To Look Forward To in Go 1.8
Still in beta, but due for release soon, this brief explanation by Brad Fitzpatrick was our most popular link of the year. This more extensive writeup by Tyler Christensen was also popular.
Reddit
Go’s Alias Proposal and Concerns of Google 'Controlling' Go
A worthwhile summary of an issue still affecting Go, although the feature was recently dropped from inclusion in 1.8 after some initial prototyping revealed issues.
Jack Lindamood
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 
Go: How I Start
A ‘from scratch’ look at beginning to use Go and how Peter Bourgon, a Go evangelist and engineer at SoundCloud, likes to get a Go project started.
Peter Bourgon
10 Million Concurrent WebSockets
A look at how using a stock debian-8 image and a Go-backed server, you can handle 10M concurrent connections with low throughput and moderate jitter.
Goroutines
How Uber's Highest Query per Second Service is Built on Go
A look at how Uber approached building a geofence lookup system in Go and how Go has helped them build and scale it so quickly.
Uber
Build Your Own Container in Fewer Than 100 Lines of Go
A look at how it’s possible to build a simple container using a small amount of Go.
Julian Friedman
Jobs
Backend Software Engineer (Zürich, Switzerland)
Centralway are seeking an experienced programmer to come and join the team. The right candidate will be responsible for the continuous development and improvement of the backend and service architecture of Centralway Numbrs. Apply here.
Centralway Numbrs AG
Want a New Job for the New Year? - Try Hired
Get ahead of your New Year resolutions! Find your dream job on Hired, where companies apply to you.
Hired
In Brief
Go Fonts: New Fonts Specifically Designed for Go Code   news 
Nigel Tao, Chuck Bigelow and Rob Pike
Changes Coming to 'database/sql' in Go 1.8   news 
Daniel Theophanes
Write React Components in Go   tutorial 
Bjørn Erik Pedersen
A Walkthrough of the Go 'io' Package   tutorial 
Ben Johnson
Building Webapps and Microservices Using Gin   tutorial 
Kulshekhar Kabra
Visualizing Concurrency in Go   tutorial 
Ivan Daniluk
[Video] Partial indexing on PostgreSQL for improved query performance   video 
Chris Erwin from Elemenio describes what partial index is, how to use it, and shows some practical examples.
Compose   sponsored 
Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Go Devs   tutorial 
Kyle Quest
How to Correctly Use context.Context in Go 1.7   tutorial 
Jack Lindamood
From 0 to Microservice in 5 Minutes with Go   tutorial 
Nic Jackson
Awesome Go LibHunt: Curated Go Tools and Libraries   tools 
Hundreds of Go resources (mostly libraries and tools hosted on GitHub) organized into categories.
Libhunt
Gallium: Build Desktop Apps with Go and HTML   tools 
Alex Flint
Simple to use, powerful programming language need a home?   tools 
Use a simple, powerful hosting company.
Linode   sponsored 
easyjson: A Fast JSON serializer for Go   code 
mail.​ru
zap: Fast, Structured, Leveled Logging, by Uber   code 
Uber
Qt 5.7 Bindings for Go   code 
The Recipe
go-chart: A Basic Chart Drawing Library   code 
Will Charczuk
android-go: A Platform for Writing Android Apps in Go   code 
Maxim Kupriianov
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