#267 — June 20, 2019 |
Golang Weekly |
Quick Go Performance Improvements — These tips are sold as "techniques you can use to significantly improve the performance of your program with little effort" which are exactly the sort of tips we want :-) Suggestions include reusing previously allocated objects, using Stephen Whitworth |
Using Fatih Arslan |
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Go 'Creeping In' — Tim Bray works for Amazon but knows a thing or two about the BigTechCos relate to programming languages, and he says he’s seeing a lot of Go things happening with Go. This provoked an extensive Hacker News discussion which is more interesting than the piece itself. Tim Bray |
Wire 0.3.0: Compile-Time Dependency Injection for Go — Wire’s job is to simplify the management of initialization code when doing dependency injection. With this latest release, Wire goes into beta and promises API stability going forward. |
💻 Jobs |
Go Backend Engineer - API Development (Berlin, Germany) — As a Go Backend Engineer, you will design and develop next-generation tooling to enhance our team's performance through technology. Zalando |
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📘 Articles & Tutorials |
Generating Sequence Diagrams From Tests in Go — If you are into sequence diagrams (and who isn’t?) this is a cool, relatively non-intrusive way to generate them for your Go project. Infinity Works |
Creating gRPC Interceptors in Go — When you’re working with HTTP APIs, having middleware to work with requests can be helpful - interceptors essentially act in the same way for gRPC instead. David Bond |
How to Deploy a Resilient Go App to DigitalOcean Kubernetes DigitalOcean sponsor |
Making a Smarter 'Smart' Thermostat with Go, Lambda, and SAM — While not a perfect fit, this is a great example of what you can do quickly today with serverless and a small amount of code. Joshua Barratt |
Handling Netlify Form Submissions with Go-Powered Lambda Functions — Netlify makes it easy to handle form submissions with AWS Lambda and you don’t even need an AWS account. Camilo Payan |
▶ Porting Go to netbsd/arm64 — The audio is poor and this is very niche, but I suspect a few of you will appreciate this as it digs into the problems involved in porting Go. Maya Rashish |
What Go Does and Does Not Have — The question is: Will the “does not have” list change at 2.0? Amrit Pandey |
Communicating Between Go and Python (or R) Matthew Mahowald |
An Easier Way to Run ASP.NET MVC 5 Apps on Linux with Go Dominic St-Pierre |
🔧 Tools & Code |
govalidator: Validate Go Request Data with Simple Rules — Inspired by Laravel’s request validation. Saddam H |
gocov 1.0: A Code Coverage Reporting Tool — It’s been around for years but has just reached the 1.0 milestone (though the only update has been gaining a Andrew Wilkins |
BigCache 2.0: An Efficient Cache for Gigabytes of Data — A concurrent, evicting in-memory cache built in Go. There’s an HTTP server package available too if you want to make it available as a service. Allegro Tech |
Getting Started: Writing Data to InfluxDB InfluxData sponsor |
Olivia: An Open Source Neural Network-Based Chatbot Olivia |
webdav: Simple Go WebDAV Server — WebDAV is a protocol for remote file manipulation, but you already knew that. Henrique Dias |
go-xmpp: A Native Go XMPP Library — XMPP is a platform agnostic messaging and presence protocol. Fluux |
WGS84: Coordinate Conversion and Transformation — Well, I’ve learnt something today! WGS84, ETRS89, OSGB36 and DHDN2001 are all different geographic coordinate systems and this Go package allows you to transform them in various ways. Malte Wrogemann |
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