Golang Weekly Issue 202: March 15, 2018

Issue 202 — March 15, 2018

It's been a surprisingly quiet week for big Go related news, but we have quite a lot of code links for you - find them at the bottom of this issue :-)

If you have any Go articles or projects we should consider for a future issue, hit 'reply' to this newsletter, and send them in. We read all submissions and most make it into an issue.

- The Golang Weekly Team (Peter, Glenn, Chris, and Za'e)

Featured

Go Date Parser: Parse Any Date String Without the Format

Uses a state machine to establish the format. Includes many tests covering a wide variety of date and time formats.

Aaron Raddon

Building a URL Shortener with Go and AWS Lambda

A tutorial leaning on the new native support for Go on AWS’s serverless platform, Lambda.

Tin Rabzelj

🎥 Release Code With Confidence... video

“It would be a challenge to release code as often as we do if we didn't have the right tooling in place. Sure, I could deploy code changes without monitoring production errors, but it would be a lot more stressful.” Learn more.

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Code Your Own Blockchain Mining Algorithm in Go

Tutorials like this really help drive understanding of a difficult concept. Just don’t expect to get rich from this one :-)

Coral Health

MarketStore: A Financial Time-Series Database

A newly open-sourced database server optimized for financial time-series data written in pure Go. GitHub repo.

Alpaca

Gitkube: Deploy to Kubernetes with a 'git push'

A Go-powered tool for building and deploying Docker images on Kubernetes with a simple git push.

Hasura

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In Brief

Integrating a Go Service with systemd tutorial

Vincent Bernat

Hugo Tutorial: How to Build & Host a (Very Fast) Static E-Commerce Site tutorial

snipcart sponsored

A Quick Comparison of Different Go File Walk Implementations tutorial

Ben E. C. Boyter

Learn Go Through Testing 'Hello World' Programs tutorial

A relatively novel way to learn the basics.

Chris James

Go Is Amazing, So Here's What I Don't Like About It opinion

It's subjective, but there are lots of interesting points here nonetheless.

Simone Margaritelli

On-Demand Webinar: Golang for In-Memory Data Grids video

Take a look at IMDG from the perspective of the Go programmer. What is an IMDG? And what you can do with it.

hazelcast sponsored

Performance and Scaling Techniques using Go Assembly video

Frank Wessels

Alpha 2 of MongoDB's Official Go Driver code

Still not recommended for production, but work is progressing well.

MongoDB, Inc.

gorush: A Push Notification Server Written in Go code

Supports APNS and Firebase.

Bo-Yi Wu

celltree: Fast In-Memory Prefix Tree That Uses Uint64 for Keys code

…and allows for duplicate entries.

Josh Baker

Gokini: A Pure Go Port of the Kinesis Consumer Library code

AWS Kinesis is a streaming data analysis service.

Patrick Robinson

Now: A Time Toolkit for Go code

Functions like BeginningOfWeek, EndOfDay, and parsing time strings.

Zhang Jinzhu

Runes: A Fast Replacement for Some 'unicode' Features code

It doesn’t reimplement everything unicode offers but can boost certain use cases.

Martin Gallagher

argon2pw: Argon2 Password Hashing for Go code

Constant time hash comparison using a competition-winning hash.

Raja Bhatia

Agones: A Dedicated Game Server Management System code

Tools to manage and scale game server processes on Kubernetes clusters.

Google and Ubisoft

shm: System V Shared Memory Functions in Pure Go code

Milan Nikolic

Scale Go Apps with Industry Leading Price-Performance - $100 Credit tools

DigitalOcean sponsored