--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #90" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 90 published_at: "2015-12-31" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/90" --- Go Newsletter 90 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/90) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 90 — December 31, 2015 Featured [Go 1.6 Beta 1 Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/24zV9JeBoEE/ANIf6AILCwAJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news Still early days for 1.6, but you can now begin to play. The [draft release notes](https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.6) cover the key changes. Chris Broadfoot [Glow: Map Reduce for Golang](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/glow-map-reduce-for-golang/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Glow is aiming to be a simple and scalable map reduce system, all in pure Go. This extensive tutorial demonstrates how it can be used. Chris Lu [Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=findout+autoscaling+performance) Ever wonder what your Redis server was actually doing? Find out with RedisGreen's dashboard and monitoring tools. RedisGreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2e101760.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/new?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015b&utm_content=primary&utm_term=findout+autoscaling+performance) [GoshawkDB 0.1 Released: A Distributed Object Store](https://goshawkdb.io/blog.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#20151222) tools news [GoshawkDB](https://goshawkdb.io/index.html) is a distributed, transactional fault tolerant object store written in, and for, Go. Matthew Sackman [Please Test Go's HTTP/2 Support](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/1ggSbDA_XYI/QMxvBuJYDgAJ?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Brad Fitzpatrick of the Go core team is encouraging you to test the HTTP/2 support in Go tip (what will become Go 1.6). Brad Fitzpatrick [Automi: Stream Processing Over Go Channels](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/automi-stream-processing-over-go-channels/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Automi abstracts the details of using Go channels to create pipelined and staged processes. Vladimir Vivien In Brief [FOSDEM 2016's Go Devroom Schedule](https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news FOSDEM [Say goodbye to the job application black hole.](http://www.indeed.com/prime?sid=xp_cooperpress&kw=goweekly) Indeed Prime is an elite new program from Indeed.com that presents in-demand tech talent like you to top employers. 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Indeedsponsored [Understanding and Using the 'vendor' Folder](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/vendor-folder/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Daniel Theophanes [Generic Event Emitter/Dispatcher in Go](http://maciekmm.net/generic-event-dispatcher-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Maciej Mionskowski [Migrating from Pelican to Hugo (the Go Static Site Generator)](http://gadgetplayboy.com/post/migrating-from-pelican-to-hugo/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Salar Rahmanian [Go Concurrency Versus C and Pthreads](http://denis.papathanasiou.org/posts/2015.12.26.post.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial opinion Denis Papathanasiou [Three Reasons We’ll Be Writing More Go in 2016](http://www.wintr.us/blog/three-reasons-go?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Nick Cox [Abusing text/template for Data Transformation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhDxWVACMbI&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video This lightning talk (4 minutes!) introduces the idea of using the standard Go template syntax for arbitrary data manipulation. Arnaud Porterie [2D Game Libraries for Go](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/2d-games/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Gregory Roseberry [Application Kill Switch: A General Purpose Kill Switch in Go](https://github.com/bep/killswitch?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Bjørn Erik Pedersen [Writing A Reddit Bot with Go and OAuth2](https://gist.github.com/aggrolite/160d5be23adb9e597553?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Curtis Brandt [Dingo: A Distributed, Extensible Task/Job Queue Framework](https://github.com/mission-liao/dingo?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code mission.​liao [Buford: Go 1.6 HTTP/2 Provider for Apple Push Notification Service](https://github.com/RobotsAndPencils/buford?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Nathan Youngman [Bench: A Generic Latency Benchmarking Library](https://github.com/tylertreat/bench?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Tyler Treat Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/90) [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