--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #82" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 82 published_at: "2015-10-30" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/82" --- Go Newsletter 82 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/82) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 82 — October 30, 2015 Featured [Testy: An Extensible Facade Around Go's Core Testing Library](https://github.com/xdg/testy/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code It makes a bold claim: “If Go’s standard testing package annoys you, you might like Testy.” David Golden [The Go Cookbook: An In-Progress Community Resource](http://golangcookbook.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A community built and contributed collection of practical recipes for real world Golang development. Want to help/add something? Submit a pull request. Tammer Saleh [Gobot 0.10: A Robotics / IoT Framework for Go](http://gobot.io/blog/2015/10/27/gobot-0.10-less-is-more/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Supports 17 different platforms (including Arduino, Beaglebone, Pebble, and Sphero). Ron Evans [Graph, slice, and correlate Go metrics](http://dtdg.co/1iZZkc0) Capture your Go metrics via expvar and/or statsd, and Datadog can instantly graph, slice, and aggregate them on demand, at any scale. Easily correlate Go metrics with what's happening throughout your infrastructure. [Start your Free Datadog Trial Today!](http://dtdg.co/1iZZkc0) Datadogsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/338658de.png)](http://dtdg.co/1iZZkc0) [Beta Release of Google Cloud Debugger for Go](https://cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-debugger/setting-up-go-on-compute-engine?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Cloud Debugger makes it easy for you to track down problems in your Go programs running on Compute Engine. Set a snapshot location and view application state when that line of code is executed. Google [Fabio: A Zero-Conf Load Balancing HTTP Router for Microservices](https://github.com/eBay/fabio?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code A zero-conf load balancing HTTP router for deploying microservices. Services provide a host/path prefix they serve and fabio live-updates the routing table based on availability. eBay [Running Go Applications on Azure App Service](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/running-go-applications-on-azure-app-service/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Azure App Service now includes experimental support for running Go with web apps. Microsoft Azure Blog [imaginary: Fast HTTP Microservice for Image Processing](https://github.com/h2non/imaginary?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Fast HTTP microservice written in Go for high-level image processing backed by bimg and libvips. Packed with features and aimed at simple deployment via Docker or Heroku. Tomás Aparicio In Brief [GopherCon Dubai Taking Place in February 2016](http://www.gophercon.ae/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news GopherCon [Advanced JavaScript Highlights](https://www.outlearn.com/learn/jonathanfmills/advanced-js?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) course Get familiar with advanced concepts like ES6, promises, prototypal inheritance, async coding & more. Outlearnsponsored [Get Ready, Get Set, Go](https://nathany.com/learn-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial An excerpt from an under-development Go book, [Learn Go.](https://manning.com/books/learn-go?a_aid=nathany&a_bid=53f68821) Very beginner-friendly. Nathan Youngman [Method Overriding in Go](https://medium.com/random-go-tips/method-overriding-680cfd51ce40?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jean-François Bustarret [Fast Stream Deduplication in Go](https://blog.klauspost.com/fast-stream-deduplication-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Klaus Post [Our Way to Go](http://engineering.dailymotion.com/our-way-to-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dailymotion [Why Is 'self' or 'this' Not Considered A Best Practice for Naming Your Method Receiver Variable?](https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3qoo36/question_why_is_self_or_this_not_considered_a/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Reddit [Real-time Image Resizing as a Service](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_campaign=2015-10-29-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 [goxml: libxml2 Bindings for Go](https://github.com/martende/goxml?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code martende [ProxyBlock: A Content-Blocking Proxy Written in Go](https://github.com/jcuga/proxyblock?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code J Cuga [MIG: Mozilla InvestiGator](http://mig.mozilla.org/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code A real-time digital forensics and investigation platform built in Go. Mozilla [Goflake: A Distributed Id Generation Service That Starts At Zero](https://github.com/pkulak/goflake?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Phil Kulak [chi: Small, Expressive Router / Mux for Go HTTP Services](https://github.com/pressly/chi?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Pressly Inc.​ [lmdb-go: Go Bindings to The OpenLDAP Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB)](https://github.com/bmatsuo/lmdb-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Bryan Matsuo Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/82) [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