--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #61" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 61 published_at: "2015-06-04" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/61" --- Go Newsletter 61 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/61) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 61 — June 4, 2015 Featured [Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go Now Available](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/developer-preview-of-aws-sdk-for-go-is-now-available/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Bu6fZnLGM&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video We linked to [the slides](http://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#1) last week, but now a video of Andrew’s talk is available to enjoy. GopherFest 2015 [Siesta: RESTful Services Made Simple in Go](https://vividcortex.com/blog/2015/06/01/siesta/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_campaign=perf2&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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. RedisGreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/17a4f5c8.png)](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_campaign=perf2&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) [Data encryption in Go using OpenSSL](http://sosedoff.com/2015/05/22/data-encryption-in-go-using-openssl.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2359758&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#tepigo) 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](https://github.com/spf13/hugo?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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)](https://expert360.com/jobs?section=go-developer) 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. 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Underdog In Brief [Using io.SectionReader in Go](http://varunksaini.com/posts/using-sectionReader/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Varun K Saini [bitset: BitSet Data Structure in Golang](https://github.com/xojoc/bitset/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code xojoc [hashedpassword: A Small Package for Hashed Passwords](https://github.com/jpillora/hashedpassword?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Jaime Pillora [go-shippable: Client Library for the Shippable API](https://github.com/PeoplePerHour/go-shippable?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Shippable is a containerized continuous integration platform. PeoplePerHour [recaptcha: A Go Module for Google's reCAPTCHA](https://github.com/haisum/recaptcha?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Haisum Bhatti [aws-inventory: Ansible Inventory Plugin for Use with AWS EC2](https://github.com/awilliams/aws-inventory?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Adam Williams [Webook: A Simple HTTP Server for Catching Incoming Web Hooks](https://github.com/adnanh/webhook?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Adnan Hajdarević [gojson: Automatically Generate Struct Definitions From Example JSON](https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Aditya Mukerjee Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/61) [See our archives](http://golangweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK