Buffered and unbuffered channels have different behavior around guarantees and latency. Knowing which to use in certain scenarios is paramount.

A fun look at using Go’s execution tracer to trace and create profiles of a long-running process to squeeze out more performance.

libvips is essentially a faster modern alternative to ImageMagick.

Go is a great language to build scalable social networks. We've built a robust Go client to make integrating with Stream easy & painless. Build, scale and personalize your news feeds and activity streams.

From the creator of the Sidekiq background processing framework, Faktory aims to be more language agnostic, among other things. There’s an official Go client here.

A ridiculously thorough list of Go resources in over 50 categories. I think we need to submit this newsletter some time though.. :-D

Don’t get too excited, these are minor point releases but contain a variety of fixes and are worth upgrading to.