#205 — April 5, 2018 |
Golang Weekly |
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Using Go on Low Powered Hardware — “How low we can Go and still do something useful?” It’s not quite Go as you know it, but here’s an interesting look at using Go on an ARM Cortex-M0-based board with 4KB of RAM to flash an LED. Michał Derkacz |
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The Tragedy of Finalizers — Go lets you register finalizer functions that get called when objects are garbage collected, but.. you probably shouldn’t use them. David Crawshaw |
Monitoring and Distributed Tracing for Go Apps — Collect, visualize, and alert on custom metrics in real-time. Utilize distributed tracing and interactive flame graphs to gain full-stack visibility and optimize Go applications performance with Datadog. Try it free. Datadog sponsor |
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On Using Go Interfaces Well — Brief, high level thoughts on interface use and what interfaces in Go should be like. Eno Compton |
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▶ Building CLI Tools in Go with Cobra — Francesc is back with a 27 minute screencast on using Cobra, a fantastic library for building modern command line apps with Go. Francesc Campoy |
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GoCraft: A Minecraft-esque Demo Written in Go — Just the basics of rendering terrain and moving around for now, but it’s a neat, relatively minimal example of using OpenGL from Go. fanbingxin |
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Go 1.10.1 and Go 1.9.5 Released — Minor fixes to the compiler, go command, net/http/pprof and other packages. Andrew Bonventre |
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Go and SQLite: When 'database/sql' Chafes — Covers the creation of a new Go interface for SQLite which doesn’t use database/sql. “Does the world really need another Go sqlite package? Maybe!” David Crawshaw |
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Initial WebAssembly Support Commit Made to Go — “This is the first commit of a series that will add WebAssembly as an architecture target.” Not much to see yet but good steps, and the GOOS/GOARCH target name will be ‘js/wasm’. Richard Musiol |
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▶ Go: Looking Back and Looking Forward — At GopherCon Russia, Go core team member Brad Fitzpatrick gave a talk on the ‘eras of Go’s life’. Brad Fitzpatrick |
💻 Jobs |
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Full Stack Web Developer, Munich, Germany — 👋 Gophers. We’re building exciting new products with React & Golang. Join our growing team here at our beautiful office in Munich. 🚀 equinux AG |
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Sr. Software Developer at CrowdStrike (Irvine, CA) — CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, which helps protect our customers from cybersecurity attacks. CrowdStrike |
📖 Articles & Tutorials |
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Running a Keras / TensorFlow Model in Go Tony Truong |
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Writing a Basic Web Crawler with Colly — Colly is a Web spidering framework for Go. Edmund Martin |
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Synchronization Queues in Go — Two approaches are compared and contrasted. Michał Łowicki |
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Manifold is the Marketplace for Independent Developer Services — Find, organize, and connect the best cloud services for your application. Manifold sponsor |
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▶ Building a Google Home Action in Go — Using DialogFlow and a Go API hosted on Google Cloud. GitHub repo. Alex Pliutau |
🔧 Code, Tools & Demos |
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VSCode Golang Extension 0.6.78 Released — A key enhancement is a codelens for debugging benchmarks. Microsoft |
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A Frequently Updated List of Go Interfaces — Extracts interfaces found in each Go version’s sources. Michel Casabianca |
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Fix Production Bugs in Seconds with Sentry Sentry sponsortools |
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Examples of Data Structures and Algorithms in Go — Covers binary trees, hash tables, linked lists, etc. Mykyta Paliienko |
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aah 0.10: A Scalable, Rapid Development Web Framework — aah is opinionated, HTTP/2 capable, and well-documented. Jeevanandam M. |
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Shaman: A Lightweight, API-Driven DNS Server Nanopack |
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gron: A Tool That Makes JSON 'greppable' Tom Hudson |
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Gonum: Numeric Libraries for Go — Covers matrices, statistics, optimization, etc. |
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Minio: An Amazon S3-Compatible Storage Server Built in Go Minio Cloud Storage |
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Linux Cloud Hosting Starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo Linode Cloud Hosting sponsor |