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Issue 97 — February 18, 2016
Featured
Go 1.6 Released
The seventh major stable release of Go is here. The biggest change is HTTP/2 support in net/http and this is enabled by default when using HTTPS. 1.6 also has environment-variable defined ‘vendor’ directory support enabled by default.
Andrew Gerrand
We Are The Go Contributors: Ask Us Anything
A variety of Go contributors are currently in the middle of a 24 hour ‘ask us anything’ session on Reddit. There are hundreds of posts so far.
Reddit
Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen
Ever wonder what your Redis server was actually doing? Find out with RedisGreen's dashboard and monitoring tools.
RedisGreen   sponsored 
So You Want to Write A Package Manager..
A very extensive Go-oriented read on the issues involved in package and dependency management before looking into the practicalities of Go having its own project dependency manager.
Sam Boyer
IBM Open-Sources 44,000 Lines of Go Blockchain Code
IBM is doing a lot of blockchain-related work, and has opened source some of its work on GitHub.
The Next Web
Overseer: Monitorable Self-Upgrading Binaries in Go   code 
A library for creating monitorable, gracefully restarting, self-upgrading binaries in Go that work well with standard process managers.
Jaime Pillora
go-git: A Low Level Git Client Library   code 
Written from scratch in Go, this is a low-level and highly extensible client library for reading Git repositories.
source{d}
LabAssistant: A Lightweight Go Port of GitHub's Scientist   code 
Scientist is a Ruby library for doing ‘careful’ refactoring of critical paths in programs by letting developers specify alternatives to test at certain junctures.
A.​ Svensson
Jobs
Platform Engineer at Compose (Remote - US/UK/CAN)
Compose provides powerful, managed, auto-scaling databases. If you love Go, have experience working with distributed systems, and love solving fun data-related problems, we have the perfect opportunity for you.
Compose, an IBM company
Platform Engineer at VSCO (Oakland, CA)
You will help millions of users make and experience art and build a foundation for the future of VSCO, including APIs and services. You value programming over specialization, and consider yourself a generalist. Relocation provided.
VSCO/technology   sponsored 
In Brief
Go Meetup at Google Montréal, February 22nd   news 
Meetup
How to Migrate a Google App Engine Datastore to SQL using Go   tutorial 
Roman Kushnarenko
How to Build A Basic Consistent Hashing Ring in Go   tutorial 
Greg Holt
Mastering Concurrency in Go   tutorial 
Guided path through the best resources on concurrency, assembled by an expert curator. Get the most out of modern multi-core processors using only channels and idiomatic Go.
Outlearn   sponsored 
A Humble Recommendation for Go Packages That Make HTTP Requests   opinion 
Martin Angers
How Can I Become A Part of The Go Community?   opinion 
Reddit
rehttp: A Go HTTP Transport That Handles Retries   code 
Martin Angers
Stow: Simple Object Persistence with BoltDB   code 
Dustin Herbis
wego: A Weather App for the Terminal   code 
schachmat
Moldova: A Lightweight Templating System for Generating Random Data   code 
Originally designed to provide the input to a database load testing tool.
StabbyCutyou
amqp-rpc: An AMQP driver for net/rpc   code 
AMQP is the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol.
Vibhav Pant
go-gitter: Gitter API in Go   code 
Gitter is a developer chat service.
Roman Kushnarenko
Raspberry Pi httpd Benchmark with wrk   code 
GitHub
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Hired.​com   sponsored 
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