---
title: "#157: Understand Go Pointers in Under 800 Words"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 157
published_at: "2017-04-27"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/157"
---

Go Newsletter 157   . 

[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/157) 

[Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 157 — April 27, 2017     

Featured [Understand Go Pointers in Under 800 Words](https://dave.cheney.net/2017/04/26/understand-go-pointers-in-less-than-800-words-or-your-money-back?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) One of Go’s most active contributors explains pointers from the ground up, complete with diagrams. Dave Cheney [Distributed Tracing for Go from Google](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/distributed-tracing-for-Go.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Google has created a Go client for [Stackdriver Trace](https://cloud.google.com/trace/), their free distributed tracing backend (that doesn’t require you use GCP for your apps either). Google Cloud Platform [A Foray Into Go Assembly Programming](https://blog.sgmansfield.com/2017/04/a-foray-into-go-assembly-programming/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A list of issues and quirks when attempting to program assembly in Go. 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Michael Hausenblas [Semantic Analysis with Machine Learning in Go](http://www.jamesbowman.me/post/semantic-analysis-of-webpages-with-machine-learning-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial James Bowman [Creating a Web App Using the Gorilla Web Toolkit](https://www.activestate.com/blog/2017/04/creating-web-app-using-golang-gorilla-web-toolkit?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Dave Rolsky [Guidelines on Refactoring Go Programs](http://talks.godoc.org/github.com/rogpeppe/talks/refactoring.talk/refactoring.slide?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#1) slidedeck Roger Peppe [Try Codeship Basic: simple hosted CI that works out of the box](https://codeship.com/features/basic?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-go-weekly-secondary&utm_campaign=cooper-basic-features-signup-campaign) Get set up with our hosted Continuous Integration service in under 3 minutes. Join thousands of customers like InvisionApp & Whole Foods. 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