--- title: "'Til Tuesday" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 454 published_at: "2023-03-31" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/454" --- Plus it's Go 1's 11th birthday, a GUI app for viewing Go execution traces, and a new way to make and use network block devices. | #​454 — March 31, 2023 [Unsub](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Web Version](https://golangweekly.com/issues/454) ℹ️ **A quick scheduling note: The Go Weekly Newsletter is moving to Tuesdays.** As such, the newsletter will be taking a break next week and we will be back in your inbox on Tuesday April 11, 2023. Thanks for reading, and we'll see you then. __ _Peter Cooper, Editor_ Together with [![Ardan Labs\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7,q_auto/uf5bdgdgdbgcbdrzi6r7.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/consulting/?utm_source=cooperpress) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/zoqh8fi4r71geeniqxqn.jpg)](https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-28-swiss-map/) [SwissMap: A Smaller, Faster Hash Table for Go](https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-28-swiss-map/) — The creators of the DoltDB database have open-sourced SwissMap, a Go port of a hash map from Google’s [Abseil](https://abseil.io/) library. It uses less memory than Go’s built-in map and is well-suited for performance-sensitive contexts where memory use for large hash tables is a concern – though, as always, there are tradeoffs to consider. ([GitHub repo](https://github.com/dolthub/swiss).) Andy Arthur (DoltHub) 🎂 [Go 1 Released 11 Years Ago](https://go.dev/blog/go1) — A quick jump back in time to March 2012 when “Go version 1” was officially released. A lot has changed since then, but Andrew ended the post with one thing that is still true: _“There has never been a better time to be a Go programmer.”_ Andrew Gerrand [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/bcc68a3c.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/consulting/?utm_source=cooperpress) [Go! Experts at Your Service](https://www.ardanlabs.com/consulting/?utm_source=cooperpress) — Do you need help filling skill gaps, speeding up development & creating high performing software with Go, Docker, K8s, Terraform and Rust? We’ll help you maximize your architecture, structure, tech-debt and human capital. Ardan Labs Consulting sponsor [The Adapter Pattern in Go](https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/adapter) — How do you test a database without a database? It’s not a trick question. There’s a synergy between testability and good design, and the adapter pattern can help you decouple business logic (“_knowing about widgets_”) from persistent storage (“_knowing about Postgres_”). John Arundel **IN BRIEF:** - The Go team has [announced a plan to release Go 1.20.3 and 1.19.8](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/71Wg3N0IZk0/m/xchF2bEZAgAJ) on Tuesday, April 4 in response to some necessary security fixes for some currently private vulnerabilities. - The Google Cloud team covers [how to connect a Go app to Cloud SQL](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-to-connect-your-go-application-to-cloud-sql/). - The team at Druva explains [how to work with WebSockets at scale](https://www.druva.com/blog/websockets--scale-at-fractional-footprint-in-go) from Go. [Go Integration Tests with Postgres](https://www.storj.io/blog/go-integration-tests-with-postgres) — A look at a few ways to use Postgres in testing scenarios, each with their own pros and cons. Egon Elbre ▶[Cross-Platform Graphical User Interfaces with Go](https://changelog.com/gotime/271) — The creators of Wails and Fyne went on _Go Time_ to talk about the challenges of cross-platform GUI development. Go Time Podcast podcast [Debugging Dockerized Go Apps with VS Code](https://www.kenaqshal.com/blog/debugging-dockerized-go-applications) — It’s reasonably simple to setup a local Docker environment for debugging with Delve and Docker (or Docker Compose), as this step-by-step tutorial demonstrates. Ken Aqshal [What Is a Saga in Microservices?](https://t.mp/what-is-a-saga-cooperpress) — Take a deeper dive into the mechanics of sagas and explore how they can be used to manage long-running processes. Temporal Technologies sponsor [AnyCable Off Rails: Connecting Twilio Streams with Go and Ruby's Hanami](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/anycable-goes-off-rails-connecting-twilio-streams-with-hanami) — An interesting marriage of Go and Ruby here to create an app to transcribe a chat into text using [Vosk](https://alphacephei.com/vosk/) (a speech recognition system) and a load of other tools. There’s a great chance you’ll be exposed to something new here. Evil Martians 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/hfabik4ulqhv2l0zssqj.jpg)](https://github.com/dominikh/gotraceui) [gotraceui: A GUI App for Viewing Go Execution Traces](https://github.com/dominikh/gotraceui) — Meant to be a faster, more accessible, and more powerful alternative to `go tool trace` with a [Gio UI](https://gioui.org/)-powered interface tuned specifically to the unique characteristics of Go traces. Dominik Honnef [go-nbd: Pure Go NBD Server and Client Library](https://github.com/pojntfx/go-nbd) — NBD means [_Network Block Device_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device) and in Linux this provides a mechanism for providing block devices (e.g. a hard drive) over a network rather than in local hardware. With go-nbd, you can build your own abstractions and bridges, such as to turn a file, byte slice, S3 bucket or other io.ReadWriter into a fully-fledged block device. Felicitas Pojtinger [Tailscale Integrates with 60+ Solutions That Your Team Uses Every Day](https://tailscale.com/integrations/?utm_source=golang&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-3-31&utm_content=brand) — Tailscale makes it easy to connect all your team’s devices and development environments in a way that feels like magic. Tailscale sponsor [gocodewalker: For Walking Directories of Code](https://github.com/boyter/gocodewalker/) — If you want to walk through a nested set of directories in a code repo while respecting `.gitignore`, this is for you. Ben Boyter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/o3u1xsgb3kk90hmybggs.jpg)](https://github.com/lmittmann/tint) [Tint: `slog.Handler` That Writes Tinted Logs](https://github.com/lmittmann/tint) — Tinted, as in colorful. Works alongside the (still experimental) [structured logging approach](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slog) Go is currently considering. Reminds me of that _Soft Cell_ song from the 80s. lmittmann [pathfind: Path Finding on 2D Polygonal Maps](https://github.com/fzipp/pathfind) — Finds the shortest path between two points in a polygon set by building a visibility graph and then using the A* search algorithm against it. 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