--- title: "Let's do some data science in Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 373 published_at: "2021-07-30" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/373" --- Plus a new GoLand release, GitHub wants to keep us safe, and editing multiplayer game protocols with Go. | #​373 — July 30, 2021 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/373) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/dmc0jnkins4parfqyarq.jpg)](https://github.blog/2021-07-22-github-supply-chain-security-features-go-community/) [GitHub Bringing Supply Chain Security Features to the Go Community](https://github.blog/2021-07-22-github-supply-chain-security-features-go-community/) — You can now view your dependency graph, be notified when your dependencies have vulnerabilities, and find advisories related to CVEs for Go. GitHub [GoLand 2021.2 Released](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2021/07/29/goland-2021-2-has-been-released/) — The second major release of the year for the commercial Go IDE which we feature mostly because in every community survey we see it’s rather popular :-) 2021.2 boasts improvements to Go module management, the ability to use `gofmt` as well as GoLand’s own formatter, and improved Go 1.17 support. Sergey Kozlovskiy (JetBrains) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0908b46e.png)](https://buildkite.com/blog/understanding-and-preventing-common-security-vulnerabilities?utm_campaign=CPress&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=cp-go&utm_term=security&utm_content=vulnerabilities-blog) [Understanding and Preventing Common Security Vulnerabilities](https://buildkite.com/blog/understanding-and-preventing-common-security-vulnerabilities?utm_campaign=CPress&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=cp-go&utm_term=security&utm_content=vulnerabilities-blog) — Join Buildkite on a tour of some of the most common security problems companies face, and how you can prevent them. Buildkite sponsor [How to Build a Go CRUD HTTP API with Ent](https://entgo.io/blog/2021/07/29/generate-a-fully-working-go-crud-http-api-with-ent/) — [Ent](https://entgo.io/) is an _entity framework_ for go – essentially an ORM for modeling database schemas with Go objects. It now has a new extension called _elk_ that can generate full RESTful API endpoints from such schemas. MasseElch [Let's Do Some Data Science in Go: How Much To Tip?](https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2021/07/go-data-science-how-much-tip.html) — So how much (as a percentage) should you tip your taxi driver? Miki attempts to answer this question by crunching some numbers with Go to see what other people are doing. Miki Tebeka 📖 [_The Ultimate Go Notebook_](https://education.ardanlabs.com/courses/ultimate-go-notebook) — William Kennedy, Go trainer extraordinaire, and Hoanh An have teamed up to write a Go book based on everything covered in Bill’s popular Go training classes. It costs (a little) money, but if you need convincing, [here’s Bill being very excited about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xNfpDni4pA). Bill Kennedy and Hoanh An ▶[How to Make Mistakes in Go](https://changelog.com/gotime/190) — As co-host Mat Ryer explained on Twitter: _“If you’re just too good at writing Go and wish you could make more mistakes, this episode is for you.”_ Teiva Harsanyi, author of [100 Go Mistakes](https://www.manning.com/books/100-go-mistakes-how-to-avoid-them), joins the Go Time crew to really explain how to _avoid_ mistakes ;-) Go Time Podcast podcast ['Packet Editing' Games in Go](https://remyhax.xyz/posts/golang-packet-editing/) — Use Go (and iptables) to intercept and modify network packets from old games to, in this case, change the text in a game. Just remember, cheating is bad, m’K? Remy Jobs [Software Engineer - Go, 100% Remote](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/juni/d516b559-ab0b-44f5-86cb-b6fe5622527f) — Series-A, B2B neobank tailored to e‑commerce. 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Charm [goqu: An Expressive SQL Builder and Querying Library](https://github.com/doug-martin/goqu) — We first linked this over six years ago and it continues to get releases and improvements - always nice to see! Doug Martin [An Operations-Free Document Database with ACID Transactions](https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/drivers/?utm_source=GoNewsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=CooperPress_Newsletters_2021) Fauna sponsor [Health: A Simple and Flexible Health Check Library](https://github.com/alexliesenfeld/health) — Provides a `http.Handler` that acts as a health endpoint and can be checked on the regular. Alexander Liesenfeld [Micro: A Go-Powered Terminal-Based Text Editor](https://github.com/zyedidia/micro) — Aiming to be “somewhat of a successor to the nano editor”, Micro continues to be a mature and good example of building a text editor in Go. 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