Go Memory Ballast: How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love The Heap — Twitch recently rolled out a small change that reduced the CPU utilization on their frontend servers by 30%. This post digs into that change, how they came up with it, and why it works.

Ross Engers (Twitch)

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Lessons Learned Porting 50k Lines of Code from Java to Go — This provoked a lengthy discussion on Hacker News.

Krzysztof Kowalczyk

Vulcanizer: A Library for Operating Elasticsearch — Handles common tasks when dealing with an Elasticsearch cluster along with offering a ChatOps-friendly interface.

Github Engineering

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Go 1.12

Amazon Web Services

Go Engineering Roles at Chronicle — Love writing Go? Want to help Give Good the Advantage and fight back against cybercrime? Join us at Chronicle.

Chronicle

Find A Golang Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started.

Vettery

Bloom Filters Explained — Bloom filters are an interesting data structure that provide a fast and efficient way to test set membership (at the cost of occasional false positives).

YourBasic

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Why 'Wire' is Great for Dependency Injection in Go — “wire seems like a perfect fit for the go community. I sincerely hope wire becomes a de facto choice for any large Go application.”

Drew Olson

Idiomatic Go Resources — “These articles represent only a fraction of the words that have been written about Go style, and this is by design my own opinionated list.” Opinionated or not, it’s a good list.

Damian Gryski

Hugo 0.55.0: The Early Easter Egg Edition — Easter eggs, in this case, are not silly, hidden tricks, but new and improved features for the popular static site generation tool.

Hugo

Go 1.12.3 and Go 1.11.8 Released — Only applies to Linux users as it just fixes a bug in the Linux binary release.

Andrew Bonventre

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go-toml: Go Library for the TOML Format — TOML is a configuration file format invented by one of GitHub’s founders. Here’s what it looks like.

Thomas Pelletier

Interpol: A String Generation Library — Uses special interpolators to generate custom strings. You need to see the examples. It’s a neat idea.

Arash Vahidi

Gizmo: A Microservice Toolkit from The New York Times — Several packages brought together to help you build server and pubsub daemons with things like standardized configuration and logging, metrics, health checking, and more.

The New York Times

grpc-go 1.20: The Go Language Implementation of gRPC

grpc

Algernon: A Small Self-Contained Pure Go Web Server — With Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL Support.

Alexander F. Rødseth

Jackal: An XMPP Server Written in Go

Miguel Ángel Ortuño