Go Newsletter Issue #146

Issue 146 — February 9, 2017

Featured

The State of Go (in February 2017) video

Go 1.8 is due next week, so this is a good time to take stock of where we’re at now. In a 35 minute talk, Francesc Campoy covers key changes in 1.8, GC improvements, and some community event updates. Slide deck.

Francesc Campoy

A Curated List of 100+ Go Storage Projects and Libraries tools

Covers storage servers, key value stores, file systems, databases and database drivers.

Thiago Avelino

New Gogland Go IDE Early Access Release Available tools

While it’s a commercial product, you can download a beta of JetBrain’s new Go IDE for free without any form filling - for now.

JetBrains

Host your next Go project on the affordable and powerful Linode platform.

Linode offers a simple, easy and powerful platform to host your next project. Now you can get 2GB of RAM for only $10/mo. Want to get started? Use promo code 'GO20' for $20 credit on a new account.

Linode sponsored

HTTP/1 Server Got 0.5μs Slower in Go 1.8? news

A relatively minor performance regression, but the discussion that ensued may be of interest as people try to figure out the cause and whether it’s important to fix ASAP or not.

GitHub

Pitfalls of Context Values and How to Avoid or Mitigate Them tutorial

Why using context values can become problematic, some alternative approaches, and ways you can use them while mitigating some of their downsides.

Jon Calhoun

Building a Performant API using Go and Cassandra tutorial

A thorough walkthrough of building a RESTful Web API that uses the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database.

Ian Douglas

Jobs

Backend Software Engineer (Zürich, Switzerland)

Centralway are seeking an experienced programmer to come and join the team. The right candidate will be responsible for the continuous development and improvement of the backend and service architecture of Centralway Numbrs. Apply here.

Centralway Numbrs AG

In Brief

The Top 10 Most Imported Go Packages news

Testify, Kubernetes, and Ginkgo are at the top.

Or Hiltch

Bit Hacking with Go tutorial

Vladimir Vivien takes you on a tour of Go’s bitwise operators.

The Practical Dev

Implementing a Debugger (1 of 2): Make the world a less magical place. tutorial

In this blog, we dive into the guts of debuggers and systems programming to see what they do, and how they work.

Backtrace sponsored

Adding Custom Data to Go Binaries at Compile Time tutorial