--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #66" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 66 published_at: "2015-07-09" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/66" --- Go Newsletter 66 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/66) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 66 — July 9, 2015 Featured [Go, Open Source, and Community](http://blog.golang.org/open-source?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A transcript of Russ Cox’s Gophercon 2015 keynote where he outlined the state of the Go project and how he sees things evolving. This is a must read if you didn’t see the kynote. Official Go Blog [Handling 1 Million Requests per Minute with Go](http://marcio.io/2015/07/handling-1-million-requests-per-minute-with-golang/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) An engineer needed to build a system that could handle a heavy load (telemetry data POSTed from millions of endpoints). Here’s his story of how he iterated on a solution using Go. Marcio Castilho [Go 1.5 Beta 1 Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/0Twz24CjYas/gdkG4nKjY34J?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news The final release is expected on August 1st. golang-nuts [RedisGreen: fast, reliable Redis support and analytics](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/get_started) RedisGreen provides top tier analytics, hosting and support 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/be4c78dc.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/get_started) [The Evolution of Go](https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123645585015?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Notes from a talk by Robert Griesemer, one of the designers of the Go language, on Go’s intent, the history of languages before Go, and the future for Go. GopherCon 2015 liveblog [Supercharging the Atom Editor for Go Development](http://marcio.io/2015/07/supercharging-atom-editor-for-go-development/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at tweaking GitHub’s open source [Atom](https://atom.io/) editor for Go work. Marcio Castilho [Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem in Go 1.5](https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123574706480?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Notes from a GopherCon session on reducing Go’s currently lengthy garbage collection pauses. GopherCon 2015 liveblog 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 In Brief [Google App Engine for Go now in General Availability](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine-go/as9wUqT77YU/FPSjVFNTBHcJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news The ‘beta’ label is removed and App Engine’s SLA and Deprecation Policy now includes App Engine for Go. Google [Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit](https://changelog.com/163/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast An (audio) interview with Peter Bourgon, the creator of gokit, a toolkit for building microservices using Go in the modern enterprise. The Changelog [An Exercise in Profiling a Go Program](http://thornydev.blogspot.cz/2015/07/an-exercise-in-profiling-go-program.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Michael Peterson [Scope and Shadowing in Go](http://blog.charmes.net/2015/06/scope-and-shadowing-in-go.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Guillaume J.​ Charmes [Adding Unsupported Instructions in Golang Assembler](http://blog.klauspost.com/adding-unsupported-instructions-in-golang-assembler/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Very high end and niche but may appeal to some. Klaus Post [10 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About Go](https://talks.golang.org/2012/10things.slide?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#1) tutorial A few years old but worth a revisit. 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