Golang Weekly Issue 57: May 7, 2015

Issue 57 — May 7, 2015

Featured

Cloudflare are big Go fans and have been working on high performance, assembly-based implementations of crypto functions which they aim to feed back to the official Go build. For now, you can use their special fork of Go to try them out.

Cloudflare

Handling Errors in HTTP Handlers in Go

A look at three possible ways for handling errors in your HTTP handlers in Go-based Web applications.

Matthew Holt

Building Go projects with 'gb'

‘gb’ is a new Go-based reproducible build tool that works with the existing Go toolchain and helps manage dependencies.

Supermighty

RedisGreen - Production-Ready, High-Performance Redis

RedisGreen provides hosting, support and analytics for the fastest Redis-backed applications. Sign up today and see the performance boost Redis can give to your system. RedisGreen supports and was built with Go.

RedisGreen sponsored

XMLGen: A Tool for Generating Native Go Types From XML tools

Feed XMLGen an XML file and it creates the relevant type of nested structs and other data types to represent what’s within it.

Douglas Hall

go-bootstrap: An Opinionated Go Web Project Generator tools

A tool that generates a ‘lean and mean’ Go Web project, using Postgres for the database (but no ORM) and Bootstrap for UI.

Didip Kerabat

build.golang.org: History and Future

The slidedeck from a talk core Go developer Brad Fitzpatrick gave yesterday.

Brad Fitzpatrick

Jobs

Go Engineer at UserVoice (San Francisco, CA or Raleigh, NC)

If you want to build a super-fast JSON API in Go, work on analytics and big data, contribute to open source, and ship new features that empower PMs to make data-driven decisions with massive amounts of customer feedback, apply to UserVoice. We can help with relocation.

UserVoice

Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO JPMorgan

Work on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as a Go developer. See if you have what it takes.

TopTal

In Brief

GoBooks: A Curated List of Go Books

Dariush Abbasi

Go's net/context and http.Handler tutorial

Joe Shaw

Writing Handsome Golang Middleware tutorial

Lee Fernandes

Getting Started with aws-sdk-go and CloudFormation tutorial

Nathan Fisher

h2i: An Interactive HTTP/2 Console Debugger code

Send raw HTTP/2 frames, type in HTTP/1 and have it auto packed for HTTP/2, pretty print all received HTTP/2 frames, and more.