--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #70" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 70 published_at: "2015-08-06" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/70" --- Go Newsletter 70 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/70) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 70 — August 6, 2015 Featured [Go 1.5 Release Candidate 1 Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-announce/X0KwHwE1vp4/mCdA_IVOBgAJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Go 1.5 is one step closer. Install it and try it out on your non-production code. If you want to know what’s new in 1.5 vs 1.4, read [the release notes.](https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.5) Andrew Gerrand [Fuzzing A DNS Parser Written in Go](https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-parser-meet-go-fuzzer/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Developers at CloudFlare decided to use the [go-fuzz](https://github.com/dvyukov/go-fuzz) randomized testing tool to put a popular Go DNS library through its paces. What happened and what did they learn? Filippo Valsorda [Your skills are in demand.](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=golangweekly&utm_campaign=n-aug06_15-goweeklyspons&utm_content=indemand) Join Hired get 5+ job offers in one week! You'll see compensation figures up front you'll be able to decide what opportunities interest you. No risk. All reward. Join Hired today. Hired.​comsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/962e349f.png)](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=golangweekly&utm_campaign=n-aug06_15-goweeklyspons&utm_content=indemand) [GoQuic: QUIC Support for Go](http://devsisters.github.io/goquic/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is an experimental protocol originally developed at Google. Devsisters corp [An Easier Way to Create Tiny Golang Docker Images](https://medium.com/iron-io-blog/an-easier-way-to-create-tiny-golang-docker-images-7ba2893b160?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Inspired by Atlassian’s [recent article](https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/07/osx-static-golang-binaries-with-docker/) but with an even simpler method. Travis Reeder [Go on The Web (Podcast Interview)](http://thewebplatform.libsyn.com/55-go-on-the-web?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast Go core contributor Andrew Gerrand spoke about Go and how it’s being used in Web development today as well as plans for the future of the language. The Web Platform Podcast [Moving Parse's API From Ruby to Go, The Video](http://blog.parse.com/learn/moving-our-api-from-ruby-to-go-the-video/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video Parse’s [article](http://blog.parse.com/learn/how-we-moved-our-api-from-ruby-to-go-and-saved-our-sanity/) on moving their API from Ruby to Go was very popular recently, now the 20 minute video of the talk behind it has been released. Parse Jobs [Go Developer at Namely (New York, NY)](https://jobs.lever.co/namely/cef35dfd-56d5-40b5-9d7e-c88e02903c70) Namely is an agile startup dedicated to 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. 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Reddit [Quick and Dirty Annotations for Go Stack Traces](https://blog.cloudflare.com/quick-and-dirty-annotations-for-go-stack-traces/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Filippo Valsorda [Develop Bindings Easily with Docker](https://medium.com/google-cloud-platform-developer-advocates/developing-go-apps-that-depend-on-libraries-without-having-to-install-them-1172deefd171?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Francesc Campoy [Working with Images in Go](http://devdungeon.com/content/working-images-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial DevDungeon [Building Resilient Services with Go](http://blog.fogcreek.com/building-resilient-services-with-go-tech-talk/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video Video (plus full text transcript) for a talk given at GopherCon about how an engineer uses Go to rewrite (and thereby speed up) an SSH reverse proxy. Gareth Wilson [A Little Golang Way](https://www.aerofs.com/blog/a-little-golang-way/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion “By porting some of our microservices from Java to Go, we reduced their resident memory footprint by orders of magnitude.” AeroFS [Gzip Performance for Go Webservers](http://blog.klauspost.com/gzip-performance-for-go-webservers/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Klaus Post [Real-time Image Resizing as a Service](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_campaign=2015-08-go-newsletter) tools Resize, crop, and process images at scale and in real-time with imgix. Get up to speed quickly with the community-built Go package. 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