Issue 294 - A new tool to detect Goroutine leaks (26)

Go-MySQL-Driver: A MySQL driver for database/sql — It’s not new, but this week’s 1.5.0 release adds module support.

TinyGo 0.11.0: The Go Compiler for Small Places — We’ve linked to TinyGo a lot in the past year (but it’s deserved). The latest release bundles Clang in the release tarball and adds support for the Adafruit Pybadge.

Building a BitTorrent Client From The Ground Up in Go — You’ll likely learn more about BitTorrent than Go in this post, but it’s pretty interesting and another example of how concise Go can be for sophisticated use cases.

Continuous Profiling in Go with Profefe — Profefe allows you to continuously collect profile data from a running Go program, bypassing setting up your own pprof process.

GoLeak: A Goroutine Leak Detector — It’s still in alpha but you can use this to detect if there are any unexpected goroutines running at the end of a function.

Go 1.13.6 and Go 1.12.15 Are Released — Both minor point releases with fixes to the runtime and net/http package. The macOS releases enable the Hardened Runtime (required for notarized Mac apps).

HTML, CSS and Go, Together at Long Last: Vugu? — Vugu is a project for building front-ends with Go (by means of WebAssembly).

Senior Software Engineer, Platform — Health Tech, join our distributed Platform team in our quest to build tooling for our Infra and Engineering teams using Ruby, Go, AWS & K8s.

How to Write Go Code — We’ve had word that this core piece of Go documentation on how to write your first Go program has been fully rewritten to modern standards.

Navigating The Uncharted Waters of SSL/TLS Certificates and gRPC with Go — gRPC is a fast (and increasingly popular) remote procedure call mechanism and Go works with it pretty well. Here’s some of what you need to deal with when working with the TLS and certificate side of things.

Some Security Best Practices for Go — A look at six (rather random) security practices to take into account such as validating input, avoiding SQL injections, and logging.

Building a Global Services Network using Go, QUIC, and Micro — The folks at Micro had the goal of allowing microservices to be deployed anywhere and still be able to communicate securely and easily.

Why We’re Writing Machine Learning Infrastructure in Go, Not Python — This isn’t about doing machine learning in Go, but about using it to build the infrastructure needed around the task.

Making More Resilient Go net/http Servers using Timeouts, Deadlines, and Context Cancellation — I think most of us know timeouts can be tricky, but this post drives it home and shows how to use them properly.

Chime: A Future Go Editor for macOS — It’s in closed beta right now, but you may want to subscribe to their updates so you know when Chime is ready.

godirwalk: Fast Directory Traversal Library — Claims to be faster, easier, more flexible, and, on Windows, more ‘correct’ than filepath.Walk.

Collect and Monitor Go App Metrics and Distributed Traces in Real-Time — Use Datadog’s flame graphs to trace requests and locate errors quickly to then easily pivot with one click to related logs to troubleshoot.

Editor: A Source Code Editor in Pure Go — We first linked this project two years ago but it’s just reached 1.0. Bills itself as a “know-what-you’re-doing source code editor”!

Sr. Software Engineer at CrowdStrike (Remote) — CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, which helps protect our customers from cybersecurity attacks.

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