Turn Go's benchmark output into charts

#285 — October 25, 2019

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Golang Weekly

Benchdraw: A CLI to Turn Benchmark Output Into Pictures— Create easier-to-read picture plots from data output in Go’s benchmark output format.

Jack Lindamood

Fuzz Testing in Go— Fuzz testing (or fuzzing) is a testing technique where a program or function is provided with large amounts of random input in order to test its resilience. This post demonstrates the basic use of a fuzzing tool on Go code.

Vincent Blanchon

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Dapr: Microsoft's New, Portable, Event-driven, Runtime for Distributed Apps— Dapr provides building blocks for microservices and is language-agnostic (though it’s built in Go which is kinda cool). It also provides bindings for common infrastructure items, such as pub/sub messaging. There’s more detail in the announcement blog post.

Microsoft

Go 1.13.3 and Go 1.12.12 Released— Two new point releases on the back of those we mentioned last week, though focused on fixes this time rather than security updates.

Alex Rakoczy

Handling Panics in Go— From their “How To Code in Go” series (which is excellent), you’ll learn about the structure of panics along with how to detect and recover from them.

DigitalOcean

Proposal: Scaling The Go Page Allocator— The claim is the page allocator has scalability issues in apps “with a high rate of heap allocation and a high GOMAXPROCS” This is pretty techy, so govern yourself accordingly.

Michael Knyszek & Austin Clements

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📘 Articles & Tutorials

Creating Tray Icons using Go in Windows— A detailed demonstration of creating a tray icon that persists in the Windows taskbar while your program is running.

Hanjun Kim

Writing a TCP Scanner in Go— Covers the basics of creating a simple port scanner with Go. I’d advise running it against your own machine(s) and not Google though 😬

Bartłomiej Klimczak

Automate Your Release Notes With Next Release— With three clicks, start automatically generating release notes from your GitHub pull requests, share to Slack, and cut releases effortlessly.

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▶  Discussing Caching in Go with Manish Jain and Karl McGuire— Four Go developers discuss the role of caching. What are caches, hit rates, admission policies, and why do they matter?

Go Time Podcast podcast

Migrating pkg/errors to Go 1.13 Errors— One developer’s experience in migrating towards Go 1.13’s approach to error handling.

Paweł Słomka

A Small Irritation with Go's crypto/tls Package

Chris Siebenmann

Fun with Concurrency in Golang— Handling multiple web servers, including graceful shutdowns, in order to demonstrate Go’s concurrency story.

Alex Sears

How to Parse a JSON Request Body in Go

Alex Edwards

🛠 Code & Tools

go-sx: Simple SQL Extensions for Go— Aims to eliminate boilerplate around working with transactions, error handling, scanning and iterating over query result sets, and more, but without being an ORM.

travel audience

yaml2go: Convert YAML to Go Type Definitions— You can either use it as an online tool, as here, or grab a copy and deploy it yourself.

Prasad Ghangal

Convert cURL Commands to Go Code— Uses net/http and puts all the headers in, etc. It also supports Python, PHP, Node.js, and other languages.

Nick Carneiro

Managed PostgreSQL by DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean sponsor

Slug: URL-Friendly Slug Creator with Multiple Language Support— For example: slug.Make("Hellö Wörld хелло ворлд") creates "hello-world-khello-vorld".

GoSimple

Go JOSE: An Implementation of JOSE (JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption) Standards— Covers technologies like JSON Web Encryption (JWE), JSON Web Signature (JWS) and the perhaps best known JSON Web Tokens (JWT).

Square

go-imap: An IMAP4 Library for Clients and Servers

Simon Ser

SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server Built in Go

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