Building a High Performance Geohash in Go Assembly

#225 — August 23, 2018

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Building a High Performance Geohash in Go Assembly— We’re going to lead with an amazing but very low level guide to using Go assembly to produce a high performance lat/long hashing function.

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Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go— While idiomatic error handling in Go is the easy (and, possibly, wise) path, there are other error handling patterns that you may like better.

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Another Introduction to Go Modules— While this topic has been covered a bunch recently, Roberto goes at the topic from both ends: how you version an module and how you use (and upgrade) a module.

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📘 Tutorials & Articles

Build a Multiplayer Game in Go with PubNub

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Write Go, Run WASM— Possibly the shortest WebAssembly experiment/tutorial possible.

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Building a Serverless Function using the Serverless Framework and Go

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Interacting with Ethereum Smart Contract Events in Go

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How We Improved the Observability of a Go Project— What one group did when taking over a legacy project to improve observability. This really focuses on concepts over code.

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▶  Don't Just Check Errors, Handle Them Gracefully— A true classic.

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Go-HEP: A High Energy and Nuclear Physics Package— A paper on a Go package to interact with some C++ libraries used by nuclear physicists.

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water: A Simple TUN/TAP Library— TUN and TAP are software-based, virtual network interfaces.

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dsched: A Distributed Task Scheduler with gRPC and REST Interfaces— dsched offers functionality that is akin to cron but over gRPC and REST. It includes CLI tools in Python and Go.

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Memory Leak Detection in Production Go Applications

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Hugo 0.47: Output Minification, Live-Reload Fixes and More— Another release for the popular static site generation tool.

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