--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #68" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 68 published_at: "2015-07-23" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/68" --- Go Newsletter 68 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/68) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 68 — July 23, 2015 Featured [Bosun: An Open Source Monitoring and Alerting System](http://bosun.org/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) The folks at Stack Exchange (best known for Stack Overflow) have built a time series alerting framework in Go. It includes a data collector (Scollector) and lets you define alerts with a custom DSL. Stack Exchange [Embedding Lua in Go](https://otm.github.io/2015/07/embedding-lua-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at the practicalities of embedding a flexible, tried-and-tested scripting language into a Go app. Nils Lagerkvist [Go on Mobile](http://talks.golang.org/2015/gophercon-go-on-mobile.slide?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A slidedeck looking at Go’s increasing support for developing for mobile platforms. There are two approaches: write the whole app in Go, or use Go behind the typical Java or Objective C front-end. Hana Kim [VividCortex - the New Face of Database Monitoring](http://t.sidekickopen13.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg4WJ3rsN6448bPf6xSsW2BgSpx56dQQddQpf6002?t=https%3A%2F%2Fvividcortex.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpaid%26utm_medium%3Dgow&si=6148852320567296&pi=5783cdb1-275a-4db4-ffcc-3eff454d2604) VividCortex is smart database monitoring built for the modern data system. It goes beyond charts and graphs to measure the work being done by your system, saving you time and money while enabling you to delight customers. Our site is also full of free resources on MySQL, coding in Go and more. Vivid Cortexsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/cb854095.png)](http://t.sidekickopen13.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg4WJ3rsN6448bPf6xSsW2BgSpx56dQQddQpf6002?t=https%3A%2F%2Fvividcortex.com%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpaid%26utm_medium%3Dgow&si=6148852320567296&pi=5783cdb1-275a-4db4-ffcc-3eff454d2604) [A Code Galaxies Visualization of Go Packages](http://anvaka.github.io/pm/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#/galaxy/gosearch?cx=-1898=-1759=10036=0.1521=-0.0994=0.0558=0.9818=150=1.75=1=2015-07-19T20-46-17Z) Essentially a 3D graph of 182,215 Go packages and their relationships. It’s beautiful, that’s for sure. Andrei Kashcha [Go 1.5 Beta 2 Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/wHMwK_NquBQ/UId6dKQs6zIJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Andrew Gerrand [dotGO: The European Go conference (November 9, Paris)](http://www.dotgo.eu/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news The speaker list is of a high caliber and includes folks like Rob Pike, Kelsey Hightower, and Verónica López, with Blake Mizerany as 'conference MC'. dotGo Jobs [Go Developer at Namely (New York, NY)](https://namely.workable.com/jobs/78578) Namely is an agile startup building an end-to-end HR platform for businesses of all sizes. We’re looking for a skilled Go developer to contribute ideas, innovation, solutions and code to our product. Namely [Want to work on new projects? Make more money? Try a new stack? Relocate?](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=gonewsletter&utm_campaign=n-q3_15-petercooperpress&utm_content=options) 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 [Proposal: golang.org/x/exp/shiny: An Experimental GUI Library](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11818?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Nigel Tao [Hardcore Go: A 3 Day Intensive Go Class](https://www.ardanlabs.com/hardcore-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Austin, SF, Seattle and Chicago - all soon. Ardan Labs [Go 1.5: Cross Compilation](https://medium.com/@rakyll/go-1-5-cross-compilation-488092ba44ec?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Burcu Dogan [SSH Client Connection in Golang](http://blog.ralch.com/tutorial/golang-ssh-connection/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Svett Ralchev [Stubbing Out Interfaces in Go](https://medium.com/stupid-gopher-tricks/stubbing-out-interfaces-in-go-e85afc200aa8?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jason Hall [Configuring Your GOPATH with Go and Google App Engine](http://www.compoundtheory.com/configuring-your-gopath-with-go-and-google-app-engine/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Compound Theory [Practical Persistence in Go: Organising Database Access](http://www.alexedwards.net/blog/organising-database-access?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial opinion Alex Edwards [Don't abuse math.Max / math.Min](http://mrekucci.blogspot.com/2015/07/dont-abuse-mathmax-mathmin.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Peter Mrekaj [Get A Redis: One Click, Docker-Based Auto Scaling Redis Host Implemented in Go](https://github.com/MohamedBassem/getaredis?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Mohamed Bassem [A Go Client for Google Cloud Bigtable](http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/07/A-Go-client-for-Google-Cloud-Bigtable.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Google Cloud Platform Blog [Muster: A Framework for Writing Libraries That Internally Batch Operations](https://godoc.org/github.com/facebookgo/muster?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Facebook [Radigast: A Slack Bot with Configurable Plugins](https://github.com/groob/radigast?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Victor Vrantchan [WSD (WebSocket Debugger): Like curl, But For WebSockets](https://github.com/alexanderGugel/wsd?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Alexander Gugel Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/68) [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