---
title: "Go 2, Here We Come"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 240
published_at: "2018-12-06"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/240"
---

The latest Golang development news       

#240 — December 6, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/240)   

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[Go 2, Here We Come](https://blog.golang.org/go2-here-we-come) — The next ‘big’ version of Go is informally called ‘Go 2’ although its proposed improvements will come to Go gradually rather than in one truly new version. Following a new, community-driven proposal evaluation process, the core team has selected three existing proposals for inclusion in 1.13. 

Robert Griesemer   

[Postmortem Debugging Go Services with Delve](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2018/postmortem-debugging-delve/) — A step-by-step tutorial using the Go debugger tools, including GDB and Delve, to investigate a web application that is hanging in production. 

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Bitmovin sponsor   

[ff: A 'Flags-First' Package for Configuration](https://github.com/peterbourgon/ff) — Provides an opinionated way to populate a `flag.FlagSet` with configuration data from the environment via cmd line args, config file, or environment variables. 

Peter Bourgon   

[Best Practices for Using Mage To Build Your Project](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2018/mage-best-practices/) — _“At Mattel, using mage has solved a lot of common dev problems, like mismatched binaries, forgetting processes, and just time spent wrangling the command line.”_ [Mage](https://magefile.org/) is a make-like build tool powered by Go. 

Nate Finch  

💻 Jobs  

[Sr. Software Developer at CrowdStrike (Multiple Locations)](https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oNYj7fwV&s=GoLang_Newsletter) — CrowdStrike stops hackers using a massive micro services architecture written in Golang. 

CrowdStrike   

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📘 Tutorials  

[Automagical HTTPS with Docker and Go](https://brendanr.net/blog/go-docker-https/) — Use the acme/autocert package to make auto SSL certificate management a breeze. 

Brendan Roy   

[Splitting Data with Content-Defined Chunking](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2018/split-data-with-cdc/) 

Alexander Neumann   

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DigitalOcean sponsor   

[How to Send and Receive SMS from Go via a Short Message Service Center (SMSC)](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2018/how-to-send-and-receive-sms/) — How to work at a low level by talking to a Short Message Service Center (SMSC) to send SMS text messages rather than using a higher level third party service. 

Jorick Caberio   

[A Closer Look at the Go Type System](https://medium.com/@ankur_anand/a-closer-look-at-go-golang-type-system-3058a51d1615) — Named types, unnamed types, and underlying types, oh my! 

Ankur Anand   

[Validating ECDSA Signatures in Go](https://thanethomson.com/2018/11/30/validating-ecdsa-signatures-golang/) — ECDSA signatures are used in blockchains so knowing how to validate them could make you rich (and then, likely, poor again.) 

Thane Thomson  

🔧 Tools & Code  

[k6: A Go-Powered Open Source Load Testing Tool](https://k6.io/) — _“Like unit testing, for performance.”_ 

Load Impact AB   

[Neo4j 3.5 Released: The Popular Graph Database](https://neo4j.com/blog/neo4j-graph-database-3-5-ga-release/#golang) — Relevant because it includes a new Go driver that makes it both easier and faster to use Neo4j from Go.} 

Ivan Zoratti (Neo4j)   

[go-consistent: Source Code Analyzer That Helps You to Make Your Go Programs More Consistent](https://github.com/Quasilyte/go-consistent) 

Iskander (Alex) Sharipov   

[Video Encoding, Storage, and Delivery in A Single Platform](https://get.mux.com/2zJdZ61) — Mux Video takes the pain out of video encoding and streaming with a simple API to video. Get a free account plus $20 credit. 

Mux sponsor   

[Ethr: A Cross-Platform Network Performance Measurement Tool](https://github.com/Microsoft/Ethr) — Measure network performance measurements such as bandwidth, connections/s, packets/s, latency, loss & jitter, across multiple protocols. Built at Microsoft, too. 

Microsoft   

[q: A Better Way to Do Print-Style Debugging](https://github.com/y0ssar1an/q) — Use `q.Q` instead of `fmt.Printf` and your variables will be printed in a way that’s more useful in debugging scenarios. Plus it’s shorter. 

Ryan Boehning   

[ObjectBox Go: A Fast, Embedded Database for Go Objects](https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-go) — Store objects in ObjectBox and find them again using [powerful queries](https://golang.objectbox.io/queries). [More info here.](https://objectbox.io/go-objectbox-golang/) 

ObjectBox Ltd.   

[Huego: A Philips Hue Client Library for Go](https://github.com/amimof/huego) — _Hue_ is a range of remote controllable lighting from Philips. 

Amir Mofasser   

[Gorilla WebSocket: A WebSocket Implementation for Go](https://github.com/gorilla/websocket) 

Gorilla web toolkit   

[Baur: A Build Management Tool for Git-Based Monorepos](https://github.com/simplesurance/baur) 

simplesurance GmbH     

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