---
title: "Go Newsletter Issue #64"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 64
published_at: "2015-06-25"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/64"
---

Go Newsletter 64   . 

[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/64) 

[Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 64 — June 25, 2015     

Featured [Mattermost: A Slack-like Chat System Written in Go](http://www.mattermost.org/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Billed as an ‘open source alternative to Slack’, Mattermost is a team communication service written in Go and [available on GitHub.](https://github.com/mattermost/platform) SpinPunch, Inc.​ [Go Has A Debugger — And It's Awesome](https://blog.cloudflare.com/go-has-a-debugger-and-its-awesome/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) ‘godebug’ is a cross-platform debugger built at Mailgun. It rewrites your code and injects function calls to provide typical debugging functionalities. Filippo Valsorda [Go Checklist: Recommendations for Publishing Go Projects](https://github.com/matttproud/gochecklist?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion An interesting group of checklists of things to run through before releasing Go code to the world. Matt T.​ Proud [Codeship: The fast and customizable Continuous Delivery platform](https://codeship.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Codeship is a hosted Continuous Integration and Delivery platform focusing on speed, security, and customizability. Join customers like CareerBuilder and Product Hunt and deploy your projects multiple times per day with Codeship! Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/89eabf65.png)](https://codeship.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) [A Code of Conduct for The Go Community](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/sy-YcVPADjg/bcO6LAr29EIJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Kicking off a discussion about a code of conduct, Andrew says: “We are the Go community; we get to choose what is OK and what is not. It’s not a choice but a responsibility, and it is a responsibility that we have neglected too long.” Andrew Gerrand [Introducing Gollum: A NxM Message Multiplexer Written in Go](http://tech.trivago.com/2015/06/22/gollum/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Gollum is a n:m multiplexer that gathers messages from different sources and broadcasts them to a set of destinations and this is a great introductory post. Arne Claus [Reed-Solomon: Blazingly Fast Reed-Solomon Coding](http://blog.klauspost.com/blazingly-fast-reed-solomon-coding/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Boasts speeds exceeding 1GB/sec per CPU core while being implemented in pure Go. There’s also [an article](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/reed-solomon/) with some background and explanation about what Reed Solomon erasure coding is for. Klaus Post [Echo 1.0.0 Released; Now Considered Production Ready](http://labstack.com/blog/echo-production-ready/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Echo is a fast HTTP router and micro web framework. Vishal Rana Jobs [Go/Golang Platform Engineer (all levels) at HAILO, London](https://hailo.workable.com/jobs/65918?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) We are looking for great engineers, ready to improve their skills, learning Go, and working in one of the coolest and most advanced platforms in the market. Hailo [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 In Brief [The Golang UK Conference Unveils Its Schedule](http://www.golanguk.com/schedule/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Golang UK Conference [An Introduction to the Consul Key/Value Store API in Go](http://techblog.zeomega.com/devops/golang/2015/06/09/consul-kv-api-in-golang.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial “Consul is a tool for service discovery and key value store for configurations.” Baiju Muthukadan [Statically Compiled Go Programs, Always, Even with cgo, using musl](http://dominik.honnef.co/posts/2015/06/statically_compiled_go_programs__always__even_with_cgo__using_musl/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Dominik Honnef [Go’ing to the Next Level: Lessons from Go at Couchbase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqxRPDNvnck&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video YouTube [An Alternative Design for 'container/heap' in Go](http://daviddengcn.blogspot.nl/2015/06/an-alternative-design-for-containerheap.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) David Deng [What I Talk About When I Talk About Writing a CLI Tool in Go](https://speakerdeck.com/tcnksm/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-cli-tool-by-golang-number-gocon?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Taichi Nakashima [Python, Ruby, and Go: A Command-Line Application Comparison](https://realpython.com/blog/python/python-ruby-and-golang-a-command-line-application-comparison/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Kyle Purdon​ [Gor: HTTP Traffic Replay in Real-Time](https://github.com/buger/gor/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools An HTTP traffic replication tool written in Go that can replay traffic from production to staging and dev environments. Leonid Bugaev [re2dfa: Transform Regexes Into Finite State Machines and Output Go Source](https://github.com/opennota/re2dfa?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code opennota [forge: Configuration File Syntax and Parsing for Go](https://github.com/brettlangdon/forge/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Brett Langdon [GRequests: A Go Clone of the Python 'Requests' Library](https://github.com/levigross/grequests?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code A nice API for making HTTP requests. Levi Gross [RequestHub: Receive, Log, and Proxy HTTP requests](https://github.com/kyledayton/requesthub?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Inspired by RequestBin, RequestHub receives HTTP requests, can display them in your browser, and forward them to other URLs. It’s written in Go so is easily deployed. Kyle Dayton    

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