--- title: "#171: Using Message Queue Systems via Go Channels" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 171 published_at: "2017-08-03" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/171" --- Go Newsletter 171 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/171) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 171 — August 3, 2017 Featured [Vice: Go Channels Across Many Machines](https://medium.com/@matryer/introducing-vice-go-channels-across-many-machines-bcac1147d7e2?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Allows developers to use standard Go channel semantics on top of various queuing backends like NSQ, Redis, and SQS. Mat Ryer [A Million WebSockets and Go](https://medium.com/@gobwas/million-websockets-and-go-cc58418460bb?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) How Russia’s largest email provider developed a high-load WebSocket server with Go that could scale to their loads. 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