--- title: "Go turns 10 years old 🎉" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 288 published_at: "2019-11-15" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/288" --- The latest Go development news #288 — November 15, 2019 [Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/288) Golang Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/mhy6uuebcohcviovjurd.jpg)](https://blog.golang.org/10years) [Go Turns 10 Years Old](https://blog.golang.org/10years) — It’s energizing to read this quick chronicle of Go and how far it has come in 10 years. _“On behalf of the entire Go team at Google, thank you to everyone who has joined us over the past decade. Let’s make the next one even more incredible!"_ Indeed. The Go Blog [go.dev: A New Hub for Go Developers](https://blog.golang.org/go.dev) — The Go’s teams answer to _… who else is using Go, what do they use it for, and how can I find useful Go packages?_ This is the “MVP”, so go try it out and give feedback. You might find [pkg.go.dev](https://pkg.go.dev/) of particular interest as it aims to be a central source of info on Go packages and modules – think godoc.org but that understands modules. The Go Blog [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7bf0cf86.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/goweekly) [The Easiest Way to Run Redis](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/goweekly) — Better monitoring, seamless scaling, durable and portable Redis hosting supporting all the latest features. RedisGreen sponsor [Recreating `grep` from First Principles](https://willdemaine.ghost.io/grep-from-first-principles-in-golang/) — I love tutorials like this. Will goes through regular expressions, Deterministic Finite Automatons, ending with a `grep`-like tool written in Go. Will Demaine [Profiling to Reduce Memory Allocations](https://www.markphelps.me/2019/11/profiling-to-reduce-memory-allocations/) — Another story about profiling and performance gains. This one was found in a dependency and has a happy, more performant ending. Mark Phelps [Security Assessment Techniques for Go Projects](https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/11/07/attacking-go-vr-ttps/) — Trail of Bits, a security consultancy firm, focuses its security lens on Go, explaining tools and techniques they use to root out security bugs. This is likely a must-read for anyone serious about Go, testing, and security. Trail of Bits 💻 Jobs [Senior Pipeline Software Engineer at Bugsnag (Bath, UK)](https://www.bugsnag.com/jobs) — We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with Go experience to join our Pipeline team, and help Develop a leading application stability monitoring solution. Bugsnag [Stream Is Hiring a Go Engineer in Beautiful Amsterdam](https://angel.co/company/stream/jobs/241159-backend-software-engineer-go) — Enjoy building high-performance infrastructure at scale? Apply to work in our Stream Amsterdam office now. Stream [Find a Job Through Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-golangweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-77582) — Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Vettery 📘 Articles & Tutorials [Let's Create a Simple Load Balancer With Go](https://kasvith.github.io/posts/lets-create-a-simple-lb-go/) — Specifically, a _round-robin_ load balancer. This is very much in Go’s sweet spot. Kasun Vithanage ▶[Dynamically Instrumenting Go Programs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfPb0ZHcfc) — Covers `delve`, `ptrace`, `uprobes`, and `frida` as ways for gathering information about your running Go programs. Jason Keene [Managed PostgreSQL by DigitalOcean](https://try.digitalocean.com/managed-databases-postgresql/?medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_campaign=MDB_Dev_Signup_Cold_GoNewsletter11-14-19) — Deploy a highly scalable PostgreSQL cluster with no admin overhead. DigitalOcean sponsor [Managing a Go Monorepo with Bazel](https://filipnikolovski.com/managing-go-monorepo-with-bazel/) — [Bazel](https://bazel.build/) is a language agnostic build tool that, like Go, just happens to be built by Google. Filip Nikolovski [Sourcegraph's Go Style Guide](https://about.sourcegraph.com/handbook/engineering/go_style_guide) — It’s just _one_ organization’s principles, of course. Sourcegraph [The Value in Go's Simplicity](https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2019/11/11/The-Value-in-Gos-Simplicity/) — In the wake of Go’s 10th birthday, many Gophers are singing its praises. So are we. Benjamin Congdon [10 Things I Like About Go](https://medium.com/@meeusdylan/go-10-reasons-i-enjoy-go-ef3c3352174) — _“Go turns 10 years old this month, so here’s a list of 10 things that I enjoy about Go.”_ Dylan Meeus 🛠 Code & Tools [Gocache: A Complete and Extensible Go Cache Library](https://vincent.composieux.fr/article/i-wrote-gocache-a-complete-and-extensible-go-cache-library) — A “complete” cache library with adapters for memory, memcache, and Redis. Gocache has some cool features, such as chainable (or fallback) caches. Vincent Composieux [INI: INI File Read and Writing Library](https://ini.unknwon.io/) — INI files (as popular in the Windows ecosystem) aren’t as popular as they were, but the format is useful in some cases. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/go-ini/ini) INI [Add Your API to the Fastest Growing Developer Communities](https://www.manifold.co/?utm_source=go&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=nov14) Manifold sponsor [BadgerDB: A Fast, Embeddable Key-Balue DB in Go](https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger) — We first linked this, the underlying database for the Dgraph graph database, two years ago but version 2.0 is just out with compression and encryption at rest added. Dgraph [tview: Rich Interactive Widgets for Terminal UIs](https://github.com/rivo/tview) — Includes input forms with various controls, text views, table views, lists, flexbox layouts, and more. Here’s a [basic written introduction.](https://rocketnine.space/post/tview-and-you/) Oliver Kuederle [APNS/2: An HTTP/2 Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) Push Provider for Go](https://github.com/sideshow/apns2) Adam Jones [Validator: Value Validations for Structs and Fields](https://github.com/go-playground/validator) Go Playgound Curated by [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict) and [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc). [Change your email address](https://golangweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) or[Stop getting this newsletter](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*) © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom