--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #89" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 89 published_at: "2015-12-17" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/89" --- Go Newsletter 89 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/89) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 89 — December 17, 2015 Featured [Gizmo: A Microservice Toolkit from The New York Times](http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/introducing-gizmo/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Provides packages to put together server and pubsub daemons with standardized configuration and logging, health check endpoints, graceful shutdowns, useful metrics, and more. The New York Times [Caddy 0.8: Automatic HTTPS for Your Sites / Apps](https://caddyserver.com/blog/caddy-0_8-released?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A pure Go web server that serves sites over HTTPS for free, automatically, using Let’s Encrypt. Matt Holt [Announcing GopherCon 2016](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/announcing-gophercon-2016/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) GopherCon 2016 will take place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado on July 11th through July 13th, 2016. Lots of details here. Gopher Academy [Real-time Image Resizing as a Service](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=go-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-12-17-go-weekly) 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[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/1887ee31.png)](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=go-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-12-17-go-weekly) [gorump: Go Running on a Unikernel](https://github.com/deferpanic/gorump?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code A proof of concept of Go running on the Rumprun unikernel. With this, you can run Go apps directly on the hypervisor of your choice, no Linux necessary. Defer Panic [Functional Go?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyHp2nJl0I&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video At dotGo 2015, Francesc Campoy Flores looked at the feasibility and practicality of functional programming in Go and how far you can go with it. Francesc Campoy Flores [Unofficial Go 1.5.2 Linux/ARM Tarballs Available](http://dave.cheney.net/unofficial-arm-tarballs?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Only ARMv6 builds are available but they are upwardly compatible with ARMv7 and compatible with all Raspberry Pi models. Dave Cheney [Monitoring Virtual Sports](http://engineering.skybettingandgaming.com/2015/09/14/monitoring-virtual-sports/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A look at how a betting and gaming company uses Go to monitor its video streams and ensure they’re working properly. 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Toptal In Brief [Gb 0.3.5 Released](https://forum.golangbridge.org/t/gb-0-3-5-released/1679?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Dave Cheney [test2doc: Generate Your API Docs](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/test2doc-generate-your-api-docs/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial tools Sarah Adams [Go Will Dominate In 2016](https://medium.com/@shijuvar/go-will-dominate-in-2016-12951627db46?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Shiju Varghese [How to Complain About Go](https://medium.com/@divan/how-to-complain-about-go-349013e06d24?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Ivan Danyliuk [gocd: Change Directory to a Go Package](https://bitbucket.org/jrelva/gocd?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools jrelva [Fix bugs in production before your boss even notices.](https://www.honeybadger.io/for/go?utm_source=goweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=boss) tools When people depend on your apps to work, you need Honeybadger. We give you complete visibility into production problems the moment they happen, and the tools you need to fix them. [Try Go exception monitoring for free.](https://www.honeybadger.io/for/go?utm_source=goweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=boss) Honeybadger.​iosponsored [migr8: A Concurrent Redis Migration Utility, Written in Go](http://product.reverb.com/2015/12/05/introducing-migr8-a-concurrent-redis-migration-utility-written-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Reverb [asmfmt: Go Assembler Formatter (Like gofmt for x86)](https://blog.klauspost.com/asmfmt-assembler-formatter/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Klaus Post [Gopher: The Go Gopher as a Windows Desktop Mascot](https://github.com/mattn/gopher?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code A bit silly, but it’s Christmas! mattn [TiDB Alpha: An ACID-Compliant RDBMS Written in Go](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code PingCAP [v8eval: Multi-Language Bindings to the V8 JavaScript Engine](https://github.com/sony/v8eval/tree/master?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Create an instance of V8 and run code on it, all from Go. Sony [git-appraise: Distributed Code Review System for Git Repos](https://github.com/google/git-appraise?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Google [Restruct: Rich Binary Serialization Library for Go 1.3+](https://restruct.io/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code John Chadwick [ytdl: YouTube Download Library and CLI](https://github.com/otium/ytdl?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code YouTube download library and CLI written in Go Ryan Coffman [Lego: Let's Encrypt Client and ACME Library Written in Go](https://github.com/xenolf/lego?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code There's a [thorough article about its use](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/generate-free-tls-certs-with-lego/) too. xenolf Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/89) [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