FEATURED Using Code Generation to Survive Without Generics Learn how to use code generation to create type-safe code (like a Queue or LinkedList) without having to rewrite the same thing over and over again. JON CALHOUN Error Handling Patterns in Go Some patterns around the proper use of defer, how to wrap error checks to avoid duplication, and adding context to your errors. NEMANJA MIJAILOVIC CockroachDB 1.0: A Production-Ready Go-Based SQL Database One of the “NewSQL” generation of databases, CockroachDB is an open source, distributed SQL database designed for high availability. Source here. SPENCER KIMBALL Equip Your Go Apps With Backtrace - and meet our new gopher Unlike other error reporting platforms, Backtrace captures all panics and crashes, even in native libraries, with no API integration required and no runtime performance penalty. BACKTRACE SPONSORED

k6: A New Open Source Load Testing Tool Billed as “unit testing, but for performance”, k6 is built in Go and offers Docker and CLI based tools for HTTP testing. GitHub repo. K6.​IO Writing and Testing an Event Sourcing Microservice with Kafka and Go A thorough tutorial that uses Kafka for events, Redis for CQRS, and Semaphore CI for continuous integration. SEMAPHORE CI Anonymizing Images with Go and MachineBox.io Building a command line utility that blanks out the faces in a supplied image using MachineBox’s FaceBox. MAT RYER JOBS Golang Engineer - Remote (Europe) Media company Movio seeks a remote Software Engineer based in Europe. MOVIO Finding a Job Shouldn't Feel Like Work. Try Hired Today. Get empowered to find the job that fits you. Try Hired. HIRED IN BRIEF Gobot 1.5 Released: The Go Robotics/IoT Framework NEWS New support for A2D devices, a new PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) interface, and support for the ASUS Tinker Board and C.H.I.P. Pro. RON EVANS Enabling Microservices: Containers & Orchestration Explained All the information you need to start learning how to build modern applications with microservices. MONGODB SPONSORED Using Linux VM Sockets in Go TUTORIAL A look at communicating via the (relatively) new VM sockets between a hypervisor and its VMs. MATT LAYHER A Go 'map' Tutorial TUTORIAL There’s a similar tutorial for strings too. NAVEEN RAMANATHAN If A Map Isn’t A Reference Variable, What Is It? TUTORIAL DAVE CHENEY Concurrent Go Apps with Goroutines and Channels TUTORIAL NIC RABOY Go Quickstart: Helpful Tips for Experienced Programmers TUTORIAL SEAN SWEZEY Using 'Einstein Vision' Within Go for Object Recognition in Images TUTORIAL SALESFORCE DEVELOPERS BLOG Going for Go and Sticking with SQL STORY Why Poki is ditching PHP for Go but staying with MySQL over NoSQL. POKI ENGINEERING An Introduction to Ponzu, a Go Headless CMS VIDEO YOUTUBE How Did You Convince Your Team or Manager to Try Go? OPINION Saying that “Docker was written in Go” isn’t a bad place to start. REDDIT Debugging a Memory Leak on Heroku In this free e-book you will learn how to debug a memory leak on Heroku. CODESHIP SPONSORED Delve 1.0-rc1 Released: A Debugger for Go TOOLS DEREK PARKER Unofficial Native Go Runtime for Google Cloud Functions TOOLS ‘Unofficial’ and unsupported but built by Google nonetheless. GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM Glue: Generate Client Code for your Go RPC Servers TOOLS TEJAS MANOHAR Falcon: An Open Source, Enterprise-Level Monitoring System CODE The docs are here. GITHUB.​COM An Official Go Implementation of the Ethereum Protocol CODE Ethereum is a blockchain-based smart contract and cryptocurrency system. GITHUB.​COM markdownd: A Markdown Renderer and Static File Server CODE GITHUB.​COM Notable: A Simple Note Taking (Web) Application CODE JOHN MCFARLANE dispenserd: A Fast and Reliable JSON-Oriented Job Queue CODE BRIAN SEYMOUR Casbin: Auth Framework Supporting Multiple Access Control Models