#261 — May 9, 2019 |
Golang Weekly |
Caire: A Content-Aware Image Resize Library — ‘Content-aware’ scaling (such as in Photoshop) lets you resize images in a way that maintains the integrity of the subject of the image. What’s neat here is we get a full explanation of how it works before being handed a library to do it all for us ;-) Endre Simó |
The Hows and Whys of Building Table-Driven Tests — Most Gophers already do prefer them, so Dave expounds on the subject by adding some best practices and packages that make them even better. Dave Cheney |
Distributed Tracing for Go Apps with Datadog APM — Datadog APM provides real-time performance data from your Go apps, so you can find and fix bottlenecks faster. Free 14-day trial. Datadog sponsor |
Go 1.12.5 and Go 1.11.10 Released — These are (very) minor releases to fix a handful of minor bugs. Andrew Bonventre |
The Go Team Wants Your Feedback If You Work At A Large Company — The Go team are always good about soliciting feedback from the community, and if you work at a company with 1000 employees or more, here’s your turn to share any pain points. Go Core Team |
Go Play Space: An Experimental Go Playground — An experimental alternative to the Go Playground that includes syntax highlighting, themes, and keyboard shortcuts. It also includes a turtle graphics mode for creating cool visualizations like this where the Go gopher draws out your commands(!) Igor Afanasyev |
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📘 Articles & Tutorials |
How to Deploy a Buffalo App on Google's App Engine — Buffalo is a neat framework for building full-stack webapps using Go on the backend. Tomislav Biscan |
Delaunay Image Triangulation — If you enjoyed the content-aware scaling feature (above) this is more graphical goodness from the same author. Endre Simó |
What Is the Difference Between Metrics and Events? — Gather data from our systems when monitoring technologies and tools. We want to see database logs and network traffic side-by-side. InfluxData sponsor |
▶ Getting Started with Buffalo — Buffalo is a neat framework for building full-stack apps with a Go backend (as we’ve already mentioned above!) and here’s a full tutorial. Mark Bates |
Error Handling in Go — Some error related best practices and tips, mostly aimed at more beginner Go developers. Alon Abadi |
▶ Concurrency in Go: A Simple, Practical Example — A 15 minute primer based around building a simple HTTP status checker. Rohit Awate |
🔧 Tools & Code |
GoReleaser: A Tool for Delivering Go Binaries Quickly — Builds Go binaries for several platforms, creates a GitHub release and then pushes a Homebrew formula. GoReleaser |
Bus: A 'Minimalist' Message Bus Implementation for Internal Communication — Inspired by a similar package for Elixir. Mustafa Turan |
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Flipt: A Feature Flag System for Running Experiments — Add ‘feature flag’ support to your existing applications, with a simple, single UI and API. More info on the official homepage. Mark Phelps |
Gin 1.4.0: A Performance-Focused HTTP Web Framework — Not new but there’s a new release and it continues to be popular. Gin-Gonic |
rqlite 4.5.0: Using SQLite as a Distributed Database — A distributed relational database, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite |
Gameboy.Live: A Gameboy Emulator Built in Go — It includes a mechanism for playing games over telnet too. Aaron Liu |