--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #71" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 71 published_at: "2015-08-13" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/71" --- Go Newsletter 71 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/71) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 71 — August 13, 2015 Featured [Performance Without The Event Loop](http://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/08/performance-without-the-event-loop?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how Go helps programmers write highly scalable network servers, without having to worry about thread management or blocking I/O. Dave Cheney [Dropbox Uses Go For Its Entire Infrastructure Service Layer](https://twitter.com/jamwt/status/629727590782099456?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Basically just a string of tweets from a Dropbox engineer showing how much Dropbox uses Go (“10s of thousands of servers running millions of hits per second.”) before encouraging people to go work there. Jamie Turner [Get more from Redis: Autoscaling, Support and Analytics from RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015a&utm_content=primary&utm_term=getmore+apps+dashboard+nocc ) Thousands of apps use RedisGreen for data hosting and performance analysis. Get insights quickly with our analytics dashboard. Start today without a credit card. RedisGreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/56ff4d5f.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015a&utm_content=primary&utm_term=getmore+apps+dashboard+nocc ) [Using the gdb Debugger with Go](http://blog.codeship.com/using-gdb-debugger-with-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) The gdb debugger allows you to inspect your compiled binaries, get backtraces on the fly, skip code, add breakpoints, and more. Brendan Fosberry [Gockerize: Packages Static Golang Binaries Into Docker Containers](https://www.aerofs.com/blog/introducing-gockerize/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A tool to automate building statically linked binaries and packaging them into minimal Docker containers. AeroFS [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 [accounting: Money and Currency Formatting for Go](https://github.com/leekchan/accounting?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Supports different levels of precision, numeric separators, formats, type conversion. Kyoung-chan Lee Jobs [Apply to top SF NYC startups in 60 seconds](https://underdog.io/?utm_source=gonewsletter&utm_medium=8_13_2015_gonewslettersponsor&utm_campaign=notimetowaste) Want to spend less time job searching? Sign up to Underdog.io and startup founders hiring managers will email you directly. You decide where to interview and where to work. Your information is kept private from current past employers. Underdog.​io In Brief [Mutule: A Steam Greenlight Game Written in Go](http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=498620019) news You can’t download it yet but someone’s trying to release a game on Steam that was built in Go using the [Vu 3D engine](https://github.com/gazed/vu). Steam Greenlight [How to Cross Compile Go Programs using Docker](https://medium.com/iron-io-blog/how-to-cross-compile-go-programs-using-docker-beaa102a316d?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Travis Reeder [Using Postgres in Go](https://medium.com/namely-labs/postgres-in-go-cf794adc4c52?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jim Walker [How to Vendor Go Dependencies with Docker](https://medium.com/iron-io-blog/how-to-vendor-golang-dependencies-with-docker-no-git-gopath-or-godep-required-537c00da0176?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Travis Reeder [Goroutines Error Handling](https://www.atatus.com/blog/goroutines-error-handling/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Fizer Khan [Embedding A JavaScript-based Polymer App in a Go Binary](http://blog.hackingthought.com/2015/08/putting-polymer-javascript-in-go-binary.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Lateef Jackson [How to Securely Provide a Zip Download of a S3 File Bundle](http://engineroom.teamwork.com/how-to-securely-provide-a-zip-download-of-a-s3-file-bundle/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Peter Coppinger [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. Imgixsponsored [Experiences using Go as a Teaching Language with Young Programmers](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/FIRSDBehb3g/BFiHYVNCwzUJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Owen Waller [onion: Layer Based Configuration for Go](https://github.com/fzerorubigd/onion?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code fzerorubigd [Leaps: A Collaborative Text Editing Service Written in Go](https://github.com/Jeffail/leaps?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Uses operational transforms to ensure zero-collision sync across any number of editing clients. Ashley Jeffs [lambda_proc: Running A Companion Process to An AWS Lambda Function in Go](https://github.com/jasonmoo/lambda_proc?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Jason Mooberry Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/71) [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