--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #96" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 96 published_at: "2016-02-11" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/96" --- Go Newsletter 96 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/96) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 96 — February 11, 2016 Featured [Language and Locale Matching in Go](http://blog.golang.org/matchlang?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) An extensive Go-flavored look at the art of finding the best match between the languages an app supports and those the user prefers and how [/x/text/language](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/text/language) helps. Marcel van Lohuizen [Introducing Silk: Markdown-Driven API Tests](https://medium.com/@matryer/introducing-silk-markdown-driven-api-tests-1f8cfb0ef99a?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#.qti8t1jj1) tools Lets you write your API documentation in Markdown, and then execute it as an automated test. It’s written in Go. Mat Ryer [Beyond the Hype: 4 Years of Go in Production](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/go-iron-production?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) video A 50 minute talk in which the CTO of Iron.io looks at how performance, memory use, concurrency, reliability and ease of deployment are key to the Go experience. InfoQ [Real-time Image Resizing as a Service](https://www.imgix.com/?utm_source=go-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016-02-11-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=2016-02-11-go-weekly) [Go Report Card: Quality Report Tool for Go Projects](https://goreportcard.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Takes a `go get` URL, scans the Go code in the repo, and reports on things like typos, complexity, presence of a license, etc. Shawn Smith and Herman Schaaf [How Is The Demand for Go Jobs?](https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/455bch/how_is_the_demand_for_go_jobs/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A Reddit discussion around the Go job market - people’s experiences are quite mixed. Reddit [An Intro to Concurrency Patterns in Go](http://blog.codeship.com/an-intro-to-concurrency-patterns-in-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) A reasonably entry-level focus on the building blocks of concurrency in Go, channels and goroutines. Laura Frank [RequestBin: Tests Outgoing HTTP Requests Initiated From A Function](https://github.com/MohamedBassem/requestBin?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Creates a mock server and passes the URL to the function to be tested and then collects all the requests that the server received. Mohamed Bassem Jobs [Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Apply to You](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=gonewsletter&utm_term=cat-tech-go&utm_content=stopapplyingtojobs&utm_campaign=q1-16&utm_location=us) On Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like Facebook, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week. Try it today. Hired.​com In Brief [How to Dockerize your Go App](http://mushfiq.me/2016/02/09/dockerize-your-golang-application/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Caveman [Benchmarking Go vs Python](http://weberc2.bitbucket.org/posts/benchmarking-go-and-python.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Craig Weber [Unhelpful Abstractions](http://dave.cheney.net/2016/02/06/unhelpful-abstractions?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Dave Cheney [How A Useless Feature Contribution Taught Me How to Use Go Forks](http://davidrallen.com/blog/using-go-forks/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion David Allen [On Variable Declarations: Slices](http://icanhazdowntime.org/post/on-variables-declarations-slices/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion freeformz [Making Error Alerts Less Noisy and More Useful](http://blog.honeybadger.io/how-to-make-your-error-alerts-less-noisy-and-more-useful/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blogpost) tools Reduce false alarms and make sure that every error alert goes to the right person with Honeybadger. Honeybadger.​iosponsored [xo: CLI Tool To Generate Go Types and Funcs from Database Schemas](https://github.com/knq/xo?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools KNQ [Nixy: Nginx Auto Configuration and Service Discovery for Mesos/Marathon](https://github.com/martensson/nixy?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Benjamin Mårtensson [Gru: A Simple Orchestration Framework Written in Go](https://github.com/dnaeon/gru?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Marin Atanasov Nikolov [deb-simple: A Dead Simple apt Repo Server](https://github.com/esell/deb-simple?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code esell [Modd: A Flexible Tool for Responding to Filesystem Changes](https://github.com/cortesi/modd?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Aldo Cortesi [OVO: A Distributed In-Memory Cache and Key/Value Storage](https://github.com/maxzerbini/ovo?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Massimo Zerbini [Gota: DataFrames and Data Wrangling for Go](https://github.com/kniren/gota?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Alex Sánchez [Learn more about Codeship's new Continuous Delivery platform with Docker](http://resources.codeship.com/webinars/working-with-the-codeship-docker-platform?utm_source=goweeklysecondary) Sign up for the free webinar hosted by Codeship co-founders Manuel Weiss and Florian Motlik [here.](http://resources.codeship.com/webinars/working-with-the-codeship-docker-platform?utm_source=goweeklysecondary%20) Codeshipsponsored Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/96) [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