Issue #165: #165: How to Not Use An HTTP Router in Go

Go Newsletter 165

Issue 165 — June 22, 2017

Featured

An opinionated post with some interesting observations. If you want to implement HTTP routing in Go, this is well worth a read.

Axel Wagner

Virtualgo: Workspace Based Development for Go Projects

A dep-compatible solution to problems caused by the vendor directory. Uses a GOPATH for each project instead.

Stream

Cancelling Multiple Goroutines

Starting from the basics and working toward the ability to interrupt a web server cleanly with a Context.

Andrew Chilton

Enabling Microservices: Containers & Orchestration Explained

All the information you need to start learning how to build modern applications with microservices.

MONGODB sponsored

G.E.R.T: A Modified Go for ARMv7-A SOCs

Another fun use for Go here, as a high-level, type-safe, garbage-collected language that can run bare-metal on small ARM systems.

Yanni Coroneos

Simplicity Debt Redux

A follow-on post (to this) about adding generics in Go, Dave dives deeper into the implications and effect on simplicity.

Dave Cheney

Writing a Static Blog Generator in Go

The design and decisions behind creating a Hugo-like competitor for a technical blog.

Mario Zupan

ActiveState's ActiveGo, A Commercial Go Distribution

An enterprise-ready bundle of popular Go packages from the open source world that also includes commercial support and licensing.

Nick McCrory

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In Brief

Pink and Blue Go-Gopher 'Plushies' Available news

Very cute. No connection to us but seems a nice product.

GolangMarket

Binary Builds for 64-bit ARM Coming from Go 1.9 Onwards news

Alex Ellis

What's New in Go 1.9 news

Paul Krill

Quick Tip: Find Out Which Go Version Built Your Binary tutorial

Dave Cheney

Go is Not Python tutorial

An interesting look at potentially unexpected behavior in a simple example.

Sean Helvey

Generating Good, Random and Unique IDs in Go tutorial

Comparing output from 7 existing libraries.

Krzysztof Kowalczyk

Correct Error Handling is Hard tutorial

The canonical example is deferring the closing of an IO object which a simple helper can handle.

Peter Goetz

Full-stack observability for Go apps tools

See metrics and events from every part of your stack. Optimize performance with end-to-end tracing.

Datadog sponsored

goism: Hack Emacs with Go tools

An Emacs package allowing you to use Go within Emacs.

Iskander Sharipov

zerolog: Zero Allocation, Chainable JSON Logger code

Olivier Poitrey

mapgen: Generate Thread-Safe and Type-Safe Maps code

Ammar Bandukwala

gokrb5: A Native Kerberos Authentication Library code

Jonathan Turner

rqlite 4.0: Distributed SQLite Now with Node-to-Node Encryption code

Philip O'Toole

go-mp3: An MP3 Decoder in Pure Go code

Hajime Hoshi

JSON Iterator: A Fast JSON Parser for Go (and Java) code

jsoniter.com

DSCache: Embeddable In-Memory Key/Value Store for Strings in Go code

Emiliano Martínez Luque

go-chart: A Native Chart Drawing Library code

Will Charczuk

Macaron: A Modular Web Framework for Go code

GitHub repo.

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