#160: Alternative Patterns for Method Overloading in Go

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast key-value store, written natively in Go. GitHub repo.

Dgraph

An overview of 3 approaches to deal with Go’s lack of method overloading: a functional way, an OO-style way, and a ‘JavaScript’-esque way. Functional options are also worth considering.

Chris Tomich

A solid response from Ian Lance Taylor on the pros and cons of different garbage collection methods.

Ian Lance Taylor

So I just need to split my simple CRUD app into 12 microservices, each with their own APIs which call each others’ APIs but handle failure resiliently, put them into Docker containers, launch a fleet of 8 machines which are Docker hosts…”

CircleCI   sponsored 

4 Talks from GopherFest 2017  video 

Live streamed from San Francisco a few days ago, the video consists of 4 talks including Francesc Campoy Flores on the state of Go, and Matt Ho on event sourcing.

GopherFest 2017

How To Install Go Using GVM (Golang Version Manager)  video 

It was just a matter of time before Go had a version manager. Here’s how to install it.

BlueBot

A look at Go’s concurrency approach as compared to other languages from the manager of the Go team at Google.

Sameer Ajmani

The tale behind replacing a monolithic, Rails-based system with a systemd binary that improved many aspects of performance.

Agis Anastasopoulos

A bit of an opposite to GopherJS.

Jingwen Owen Ou

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Hired

Gogland EAP 8 Available: A Promising New Go IDE  news 

JetBrains

Get Tighter Go Integration with Komodo IDE  news 

Release 10.2.2 brings syntax highlighting, code completion, and more.

ActiveState

Understanding Middleware in Go  tutorial 

Lanre-Adelowo

Another Introduction to Pointers in Go  tutorial 

Naveen Ramanathan

MONGODB   sponsored 

Mastering Go Programming: Slices  video 

A practical guide to slices in Go that covers the basics along with some memory management tips.

Packt Video

How Go’s Type System Differs from Java  opinion 

From the perspective of a Java developer.

JAXenter

On Package Names for Tests  opinion 

Should you keep your tests in the same package as your code or in a _test package?

Lanre-Adelowo

Toxiproxy: A Framework for Simulating Network Conditions  tools 

A TCP proxy to simulate network conditions for chaos and resiliency testing.

Shopify

Gap-free tracing for Go apps  tools 

Visualize key metrics, identify bottlenecks in end-to-end traces, and correlate with 150+ other technologies.

Datadog   sponsored 

go-distributed-tracing: Kubernetes-Based Example of Tracing with Stackdriver  code 

Taichi Nakashima

Go-rquad: Algorithms for Region Quadtrees  code 

And neighbor finding algorithms/techniques.

Aurelien Rainone

Goldfish: A HashiCorp Vault UI Panel  code 

A Go app that leans on Vue.js for the frontend.

Tony Cai

Goka: A Stream Processing Library for Apache Kafka  code 

Lovoo GmbH

A Source Code Editor Written in Pure Go  code 

Jorge Pinto

cronsun: A Distributed Cron-Style Job System  code 

miraclesu

GJSON: Quickly Grab Values from a JSON Document  code 

Josh Baker

fsql: Search Your Filesystem Using SQL-esque Queries  code 

Kashav