---
title: "Go Newsletter Issue #62"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 62
published_at: "2015-06-12"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/62"
---

Go Newsletter 62   . 

[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/62) 

[Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 62 — June 12, 2015     

Featured [7 Common Mistakes in Go and When to Avoid Them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29LLRKIL_TI&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video Steve Francia of Docker looks at some common mistakes when using Go’s features, such as interface usage, pointer misunderstandings, and thinking of errors as strings. YouTube [gb, A Project Based Build Tool for the Go Programming Language](http://dave.cheney.net/2015/06/09/gb-a-project-based-build-tool-for-the-go-programming-language?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) We’ve mentioned this interesting tool a few times, but its creator has written up a full introduction and explains the benefits of adopting a project based workflow for building solutions in Go. Dave Cheney [Continuous Delivery with Codeship](https://codeship.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Codeship is a hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery service focusing on speed, security, and customizability. Join customers like CareerBuilder and Product Hunt and speed up your software development with Codeship! Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/89eabf65.png)](https://codeship.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) [The State of Go in the Market and Its Future](http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/394vzq/the_state_of_go_in_market_and_its_future/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A Reddit discussion about Go’s popularity and relevance in the market. Opinions go all the way from saying not to put all your eggs in Go’s basket to Go being “the next great language.” Reddit [Rob Pike On The Move From C to Go in The Toolchain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF1zJYkBW4A&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video At GopherFest 2015, Rob Pike spoke about the state of Go 1.5 and how the entire system is now itself written in Go. GopherFest 2015 [How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go](http://blog.parse.com/learn/how-we-moved-our-api-from-ruby-to-go-and-saved-our-sanity/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Ruby let Parse get the first versions of their API out the door quickly but they’ve recently been reimplementing some of it in Go - why? Charity Majors [Godep: Dependency Management in Go](http://blog.codeship.com/godep-dependency-management-in-golang/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Instead of requiring changes to be made to the source code to support vendored import paths, Godep modifies GOPATH to use the vendored folder. Brendan Fosberry Jobs [Want to work on new projects? Make more money? Try a new stack? Relocate?](https://hired.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) On Hired, we'll bring the options to you. With over 2,000 pre-screened tech companies in 10 cities in the US UK, you'll be sure to find what you're looking for. Join Hired today. Hired.​com [Site Reliability Engineer at trivago](http://www.trivago.com/jobs/details/938-site-reliability-engineer?cip=99060001012560&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join the world’s largest hotel search and ensure a reliable, fault-tolerant production environment. If PHP is your mother tongue language, we should talk. trivago In Brief [Experimental Dependency Vendoring in Go 1.5](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/74zjMON9glU/4lWCRDCRZg0J?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Russ Cox [Women Who Go in San Francisco](http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news A new group for female Go developers meeting up for the first time later this month. Meetup [Implementing A Reverse Proxy in Go on Google App Engine](http://pokstad.com/2015/06/05/golang-reverse-proxy-in-gae.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Paul Okstad [Experiences in Writing an Integration Service in Go](http://adampresley.com/2015/06/08/experiences-in-writing-an-integration-service-in-go.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Adam Presley [A Year with Go](http://vagabond.github.io/rants/2015/06/05/a-year-with-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion If you enjoy reading contrary opinion pieces.. “I’m going to put Go (alongside C++, Java and PHP) in the weird drawer under the microwave where all the stuff you can’t find a good use for gravitates.” Andrew Thompson [go2xcode: Go Package to Xcode Project Generator](https://github.com/rakyll/go2xcode?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Converts a Go package into a Xcode project that targets iOS 8.3. Burcu Dogan [grace: Graceful Restart for Go Servers](https://github.com/facebookgo/grace?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Makes it easy to build socket based servers that can be gracefully terminated restarted (i.e. without dropping any connections). Facebook [kala: A Modern Job Scheduler Written in Go](https://github.com/ajvb/kala?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Has a simple language agnostic JSON over HTTP API and uses BoltDB as a backend. Currently just an alpha. AJ Bahnken [go-freeling: Natural Language Processing in Go](https://github.com/advancedlogic/go-freeling?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code A partial port of Freeling 3.1, an open source suite of natural language analyzers. It can do things like PoS tagging, text tokenization, sentence splitting, and morphological analysis. Antonio Linari    

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