Issue #61: Go Newsletter Issue #61

Go Newsletter 61

Issue 61 — June 4, 2015

Featured

Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go Now Available

The AWS SDK for Go now has full Amazon Web Services service support, exponential backoff retry handling, and more. An example code snippet showing how to retrieve items from S3 is also included in the announcement.

Amazon Web Services

Andrew Gerrand on the Current State of Go and Go 1.5 Release video

We linked to the slides last week, but now a video of Andrew’s talk is available to enjoy.

GopherFest 2015

Siesta: RESTful Services Made Simple in Go

Boasts more sophisticated routing than provided by net/http, easy definition and validation of inputs, middleware-style handler chaining, and an idiomatically Go flavor.

VividCortex

RedisGreen: High-Performance, Production-Ready 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

Data encryption in Go using OpenSSL

Go’s own crypto implementation doesn’t use OpenSSL which can make it trickier to interact with OpenSSL encoded data from other languages. Dan set out to use OpenSSL from Go to decrypt data encrypted using OpenSSL from Ruby.

Dan Sosedoff

Translating Effective Python into Go: Know When to Use Channels for Generator-Like Functions tutorial

Used together, channels and goroutines in the Go programming language can provide similar behavior to Python’s generator functions.

Brett Slatkin

Hugo: A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator code

Hugo is a static site generator optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. It takes a directory with content and templates and renders into a full HTML site.

Steve Francia

Jobs

Senior Go Engineer at Expert360 (Sydney, Australia)

Calling all Australian Gophers! If you've built multiple REST APIs, have years of full-time experience, and a love for testing and automation, then apply to Expert360. You'll be helping build our distributed API using cutting edge technologies like Docker, Go, Consul and Cloudformation.

Expert360

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Underdog

In Brief

Using io.SectionReader in Go tutorial

Varun K Saini

bitset: BitSet Data Structure in Golang code

xojoc

hashedpassword: A Small Package for Hashed Passwords code

Jaime Pillora

go-shippable: Client Library for the Shippable API code