Go Newsletter Issue #121

RC4 and RC5 came in quick succession. The final 1.7 is due next week.

A walkthrough designed to help you understand a key part of Go’s standard library better.

Goa consists of a DSL for describing an API’s design, a code generation tool and a set of library packages used by both generated and non-generated code.

This month only, we're giving away free tshirts for all new deployments of Compose PostgreSQL. It takes just a couple minutes to signup and deploy a HA, 3-node Postgres cluster with daily backups and autoscaling. Give it a try.

A user submitted a BoltDB library to Reddit. Another user reviewed the code, found a variety of issues, and wrote up an extensive and useful review.

Includes two implementations, one in Go, one in JavaScript. There’s also a post with the back story.