Golang Weekly Issue 158: May 4, 2017

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Issue 158 — May 4, 2017

Featured

There is No Pass-by-Reference in Go tutorial

“Go does not have pass-by-reference semantics because Go does not have reference variables.”

Dave Cheney

Pilosa: A Distributed Bitmap Index, Powered by Go code

An open source, distributed bitmap index system for accelerating queries across massive data sets. Intro here.

Pilosa

Real-time performance monitoring for Go apps

Observe your apps from any angle with custom Go metrics, expvar variables, server metrics, and end-to-end traces.

Datadog sponsored

Type Safety or Convenience tutorial

How one developer discovered that the freedom of interface{} comes at the cost of type safety.

Lanre Adelowo

infreqdb: S3 Backed Database for Infrequent Read Access code

An AWS S3-backed key/value data store for infrequent read access from Go.

turbobytes

Building a Go Web App in 2017, A 4 Part Series tutorial

A four part series on building a ‘real’ web app from scratch without frameworks.

Gregory Trubetskoy

Config: A Simple Configuration Library code

A small configuration library for Go that caches values in memory, parses environment variables, JSON files, and reloads automatically on SIGHUP.

Josh Betz

Jobs

Full Stack Go Developer (London, UK)

A cryptocurrency startup which is migrating from Node to Go.

Endian

Be Passionate about your Work. Get Hired

Your dream job is out there, use Hired to find it faster.

Hired sponsored

In Brief

A Multi-Stage Dockerfile for Go Apps tutorial

Docker just added multi-stage Dockerfiles to reduce production image sizes.

Alex Pliutau

Mapping an RDBMS on to a Key-Value Store tutorial

Mapping rows to keyed values and indexes based on interesting attributes.

Simple Made Difficult

A Go Web Deployment Tool Chain with NGINX, Gulp and Supervisor tutorial

An interesting and relatively complete approach to a Go web application deployment.

Naren Arya

Cross Compiling Go Apps For Use on a Raspberry Pi tutorial

Nic Raboy

A Short Guide to Mastering Go Strings tutorial

Chris Tomich

Writing a Go SPI Driver for the MCP3008 tutorial

The MCP3008 is an analog-to-digital converter you can communicate with over an SPI bus.

Auke Willem Oosterhoff

Running MongoDB as a microservice with Docker and Kubernetes tutorial

Containers are revolutionizing the entire software lifecycle from proofs of concept through development, test, deployment, and support.

MONGODB sponsored

Visualizing Concurrency in Go story

We linked it a year ago but this animated look at concurrency in Go apps has been doing the rounds again.

Ivan Daniluk

Brad Fitzpatrick on Go4 and Contributing to Go podcast

An 80 minute interview with a prominent Go core member.

The Changelog

On Game Development and Rebuilding Microservices in Go podcast

Luna Duclos

Using Go in Production: One Developer's Experiences opinion

Tamizhvendan S

Immutable vs Mutable Performance in Go opinion

Chris Tomich

Continuous Integration & Delivery Made Easy With Golang tools

Quick-start guide for Go projects on CircleCI. Configuration, examples, and demo projects.

CircleCI sponsored

Nanolog: Super Fast Logging for Go code

A fast, zero-allocs logger.

Scott Mansfield

GoQ: Lightweight In-Memory Message Broker code

Travis Patterson

Webook: A Simple HTTP Server for Catching Incoming Web Hooks code

Adnan Hajdarević

Kurly: An Alternative to 'curl' But Written in Go code

Full explanation here.

David J Peacock

LinkedList: A Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation code

Josh Montoya

go-errortree: For Handling Errors Organized As A Tree code

Stephan Peijnik