--- title: "The best Go Newsletter items of 2016" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 140 published_at: "2016-12-22" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/140" --- Go Newsletter 140 . A roundup of the top Go links this year -[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/140) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) 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](https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4zr8j0/what_should_we_be_excited_about_in_go_18/d6y5mtb?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](https://blog.tylerchr.com/golang-18-whats-coming/) by Tyler Christensen was also popular. Reddit [Go’s Alias Proposal and Concerns of Google 'Controlling' Go](https://medium.com/@cep21/gos-alias-proposal-and-all-my-concerns-of-google-controlling-go-a39f6c6046aa?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/redismonitor_sign_up?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016c&utm_content=primary&utm_term=map_your_redis) 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. Redisgreensponsored — [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/4c407619.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/redismonitor_sign_up?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016c&utm_content=primary&utm_term=map_your_redis) [Go: How I Start](http://howistart.org/posts/go/1?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](http://goroutines.com/10m?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](https://eng.uber.com/go-geofence/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](http://www.infoq.com/articles/build-a-container-golang?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how it’s possible to build a simple container using a small amount of Go. 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