GitHub Has Changed the Color It Uses to Represent Go — Relatively minor news, but it's a quiet week! This change has been under discussion for a while, and appears to have even forced the color for Docker files to change, but Go’s color is now the same as the Gopher mascot color.

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Go 1.12 Release Candidate 1 Released — Toolchain changes, like no more go tool vet or godoc, and support for TLS 1.3 top the list. Go 1.12 is also the last release that will support binary-only packages.

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A Look at Working with Trees — A pretty extensive Go-flavored introduction to tree data structures and how to represent and use them in Go code.

Ilija Eftimov

Go JSON Cookbook — A collection of examples of working with JSON that the author promises to continue to update. Even if he doesn’t, the current list is very useful.

Eli Bendersky

Handling 1M WebSocket Connections in Go? — A demonstration of “how a very high number of websockets connections can be maintained efficiently in Linux” using only Go.

Eran Yanay

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Building Modern Desktop Apps in Go — From a FOSDEM 2019 presentation, this video introduces the Lorca framework which uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to let you build Electron-like apps using HTML and Go.

Serge Zaitsev

Producing Multipart HTTP Responses in Go

Peter Bourgon

Streaming Video Teardown: Twitch Vs. Amazon Prime — Read about how we broke down the technology stacks behind two streaming platforms for Thursday Night Football.

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Build Your Own OAuth2 Server in Go

Cyan Tarek

Publish-Subscribe Example with NATS and Go

Paweł Słomka

gotop: A Terminal-Based Graphical Activity Monitor — Go continues to be popular for building systems and ops tools and this is a good-looking example.

Caleb Bassi

So Many Ways to Learn Kotlin - Which Is Right for You?

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go-chart: A Simple, Native Chart Drawing Library — Pies, stacked bars, spark lines, supports timeseries and continuous line charts. go-echarts is another good looking recent entrant to this space, though the documentation is all in Chinese for now.

Will Charczuk

go-statsd: A Simple, Efficient StatsD Client for Go

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go-fuzzyfinder: A fzf-like Fuzzy-Finder As A Library

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Elastic Working on an Official Elasticsearch Client for Go — A work in progress but potentially of interest if you’re an Elasticsearch user.

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Certify 1.0: Automatic Certificate Distribution & Maintenance — This isn’t for your average Web site, but as the handy introductory post explains it’s a way to lazily renew and cache certificates (via Vault, Cloudflare, or AWS Certificate Manager) for microservices or back-end services.

Johan Brandhorst