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Issue 85 — November 19, 2015
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The Legacy of Go
A write up of a talk by Dave Cheney about how Go might be seen retrospectively in the future before concluding that we all still have a role to play in Go’s future.
Dave Cheney
Writing Unit Tests for your net/http Handlers   video 
A 5 minute screencast that demonstrates two ways to test a simple Go API server that proxies the GitHub API using go-github.
Go in 5 Minutes
Oden: A Lisp-Like Language That Compiles to Go   code 
A Lisp-inspired language with static typing that compiles to native code using Go. I think Go is a great target for experiments like this and hope to see more.. psst, a Ruby-esque language compiled down to Go maybe..?
Oskar Wickström
Graph and slice custom Go metrics, correlate them with rest of your stack
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Datadog   sponsored 
Go Support for Visual Studio Code
An extension for Microsoft’s free (and just open sourced) code editor that adds rich Go support.
Visual Studio Marketplace
Go on ARM   code 
Some documentation on support for Go on ARM. Go is now fully supported on Linux and Darwin using ARMv5 and above (or, for Go 1.5, ARMv8).
github.​com
uiprogress: Render Progress Bars in Terminal Apps   code 
A Go library that provides a simple API for rendering textual progress bars.
Example: 3s [=======>-------] 50%
Greg Osuri
Fako: Struct Faker for Go   code 
Intended to fake Golang structs with fake but coherent data, Fako maps struct field tags and generates fake data accordingly.
Wawandco Team
Using Go and Python NLTK for News Analysis   video 
A 20 minute GothamGo talk by JP Robinson of the New York Times on the obstacles they overcame to rewrite a core part of a news delivery platform in Go.
The New York Times
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In Brief
Would You Like to See A Regional GopherCon Next Year?   news 
Gopher Academy
Open Sourcing Statsgod, a Go StatsD Implementation   news   tools 
Statsgod is a metric aggregation service inspired by the statsd project (which is written in Node).
Acquia
Are You Using Go for Big Data? Google Wants To Know   news 
Jason Buberel
Very Basic Concurrency for Beginners in Go   tutorial 
Mat Ryer
Write Your First Golang App Server On Bluemix   tutorial 
Jeff Sloyer
Vendoring Your Dependencies in Go   video 
Go in 5 Minutes
Developing a Real Time Advertising Bidder in Go   opinion 
Hansel Dunlop
Let’s Talk About Logging   opinion 
Dave Cheney
Best Practices for a New Go Developer   opinion 
Satish Talim
If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship   tools 
Learn about the new Codeship with native Docker support. Work with your established Docker workflows while automating your testing and deployment tasks. Get free trial access here.
Codeship   sponsored 
libmill: Go-Style Concurrency in C   code 
If you work with C but prefer Go, you might like this.
sustrik
BuoyBot: A SF Buoy Twitter Bot, Written in Go   code 
John Beil
Goa: Framework for Building RESTful APIs in Go   code 
Raphaël Simon
negotiator: A Content Negotiation Package for Webapps   code 
Jonathan Channon
uitable: Represent Data as Tables in Terminal Apps   code 
Greg Osuri
gcm: Google Cloud Messaging for Application Servers   code 
A new fork, due to the original not being updated in over a year.
Adriano Orioli
go-oauth2-server: OAuth2 Server Implementation for Go   code 
Richard Knop
go-drain: Connect Readers and Writers with String Channels   code 
Mike O
Wednesday Pop Quiz: Spot The Race
Dave Cheney
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