Go Newsletter Issue #152

A three-part tutorial covering the basics of OpenGL graphics API in Go by reimplementing Conway’s Game of Life from scratch using go-gl.

Kyle W.​ Banks

One person’s (detailed and well-supported) opinion on how Go could improve with examples in Rust.

Jesse Hallett

Three reasons why Go is an important language by one of its biggest contributors.

Dave Cheney

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 

A Hopfield network is a form of recurrent artificial neural network. This post introduces the concept and shows off a Go implementation.

Milos Gajdos

Browse and search local packages, view documentation, open project repositories, etc. Uses Gallium, a Go Chromium wrapper.

Kyle Banks

Fernando Álvarez

Statement Campus is a fully remote company. Our architecture is based on the use of Microservices, and we use Go as programming language.

Statement Campus

From monolith to microservices, and all the impact around it. Join us building the ultimate online playground for kids of all ages.

Poki

Go Adds Support for OpenBSD's 'pledge' Syscall-Restricting Mechanism  news 

googlesource.​com

Donate to Send Women Who Go to Gophercon  news 

Sarah Adams

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 

A Guide to Effective Logging in Go  tutorial 

From basic logging with the standard library to standardized logging with third-party tools.

Logmatic

Understanding Gorilla Mux: A URL Router and Dispatcher  tutorial 

Includes defining routes, queries, host-based matches, and many other features.

Naren Arya

Comparing Git Trees in Go  tutorial 

Alberto Cortés

Port Forwarding with Go  tutorial 

Mario Zupan

Halftoning with Go, Part 2  tutorial 

Halftoning is a way to reproduce an image using dots of varying size and spacing.

Max Halford

Packaging and Deploying Go Applications to AWS using Semaphore  tutorial 

Kulshekhar Kabra

Automatic Stackdriver Tracing for gRPC  tutorial 

Go, the Unwritten Parts

Server Side Caching with Go  tutorial 

Guilherme Oenning

In this eBook, we will look at ways to streamline your Docker image as small as possible, using code examples to highlight strategies.

Codeship   sponsored 

One Year Using Go  story 

How Bugfender fared with Go, the frameworks they chose, and what they’d do differently today.

Aleix Ventayol

A High-Level Comparison of Node and Go  opinion 

Includes syntactical comparisons and performance benchmarks.

John Stamatakos

go-sumtype: A Utility for Running Exhaustiveness Checks on 'Sum Types'  tools 

Andrew Gallant

strit: String Processing Pipelines  code 

Adds a DSL around iterating, filtering, and transforming strings so operations can be pipelined.

Maxim

Gobot 1.3 Released: A Go-Powered Robotics Framework  code 

Now supports the BBC Microbit and DragonBoard.

Ron Evans

An Awesome Way to Do Configuration in Go?  code 

Alan Braithwaite

instrumentedsql: A SQL Driver That Will Wrap Other Drivers to Log Their Calls  code 

Expansive Worlds

ctop: Concise Commandline Monitoring for Containers  code 

Bradley Cicenas