Golang Ninjas Newsletter - Issue #1

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Golang Ninjas Newsletter

April 21 · Issue #1 · View online

Stay up-to-date and ahead of your peers with Maarten Bezemer's weekly newsletter for senior Golang engineers.

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A closer look at Golang

The Tragedy of Finalizers

crawshaw.io – Share

Finalizers are deeply unsatisfying. They are almost impossible to use well.

The many flavours of dependency injection in Golang

blog.gojekengineering.com – Share

A challenging aspect of building Go apps is managing many dependencies.

Asynchronous Real-Time Broadcasting using channels and sockets

dev.to – Share

Learn how to broadcast data to multiple websocket clients in Go.

Golang best-practices

Building Google Home Action with Go

dev.to – Share

The voice assistant has many integrations, enabling us to build apps for it.

A Cognito Protected Serverless API with Go in Minutes

serifandsemaphore.io – Share

See just how quickly you can get a severless AWS Lambda API with OAuth by Cognito up and running. Your wallet will thank you.

Measuring code sentiment in a git repository – source{d}

medium.com – Share

It’s easy to analyze Git repositories with Go, which is useful for “inference-in-a-box” with Tensorflow.

Microservice coded during hackathon saving us thousands

movio.co – Share

How carrying-out a Go microservice is saving us $50,000 per year.

Golang Tools

Introducing Charlatan

medium.com – Share

Charlatan helps developers write better tests for complex software.

Schnorr Signatures in Go

medium.com – Share

An asymmetric cryptosystem based off of the discrete log problem

Instrumenting a Go application with Zipkin

medium.com – Share

A common question about tracing is how to instrument an application.

Rewind is a high performance command log library.

github.com – Share

Rewind is a command log library. Similar to a WAL (write-ahead-log).

Sloc, Cloc and Code: a very fast accurate code counter

github.com – Share

With complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates

Golang Discussion

Configuring sql.DB for Better Performance

www.alexedwards.net – Share

Most tutorials gloss over the SetMaxOpenConns(), SetMaxIdleConns() and SetConnMaxLifetime(), with which you can configure sql.DB.

Re: Configuring sql.DB for Better Performance

techblog.en.klab-blogs.com – Share

I just can’t bring myself to agree with the settings recommended in the article. I’d like to explain what settings I would recommend myself.

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