Bookmarks (1578)

Python Extensions with Rust and Go — Two friends ponder if they should create Python extensions in Rust or Go. The answer is…wait for it…it depends!

CloudQuery: Transforms Your Cloud Infrastructure into SQL Queryable Tables — Open source, written in Go. select * from aws_ec2_instances seems nicer than a CLI. Azure and GCP support are still pending.

lambda-go-api-proxy: For Porting APIs on Go Frameworks (Such as 'Gin') to AWS Lambda + API Gateway — Also supports Negroni, GorillaMux, and plain HandlerFunc.

Smithy: A Tiny Git Forge Written in Go — A simple frontend for your git repository if something like Gitea feels a bit too much?

Ethr: A Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP and HTTP — Yep, this comes from Microsoft. It’s nice to see them writing Go, and it works across multiple platforms too.

Merge Word Docx and Add Cover Pages Using UniOffice — Merging Docx files is a headache due to the complexity of the format. UniOffice enables this and many other features.

Box CLI Maker: Make Highly Customized Boxes for Your CLI — I think the author of this packages really likes boxes! Single lines, double lines, a mixture of the two.. rounded corners, only the corners, and a lot more options await you here.

Clock: A Small Library for Mocking Time — Provides an interface around the time package so an app can use the realtime clock while tests use a mock clock.

▶  The Secret Life of Gophers — Mat Ryer, Kris Brandow, Angelica Hill, and Natalie Pistunovich talk about work/life balance, work environment must-haves, communication tips, developer tool recommendations, and more.

Lead Backend Engineer (Go) — Our mission is to build collaborative software that’s Super-Fast and Nice-To-Use. We are seeking a talented Lead Backend Engineer (Golang) to help us achieve our mission.

Building a Blog with Micro in Go — A step-by-step tutorial creating a quick CRUD app for posts. Micro has a robust CLI utility that generates microservices for your cloud-native platform. That’s a lot of buzzwords, but Micro is worth a look.

Anonymous Structs: What and Why? — An anonymous struct is a struct defined without a name meaning it can’t be referenced elsewhere. Pointless? No. There are some nice use cases like nested structs or marshalling JSON data, say, where Lane argues anonymous structs handily beat map[string]interface{}

▶  Why GitHub's CLI Team Switched From Ruby to Go — GitHub famously uses a lot of Ruby (and was founded by four Rubyists!) so it’s interesting to see where it doesn’t make sense. This 3 minute portion of a podcast with Mislav Marohnić of the GitHub CLI team breaks it down. Portability, basically.

Blackrota: Looking Into a Heavily Obfuscated Backdoor Written in Go — Netlab is a Chinese security research company and have uncovered what they call “the most obfuscated Go-developed ELF-formatted malware we’ve found” although apparently such projects are not considered common. Lots of details on the obfuscation here though.

An Online Go Scaling Conference Next Thursday (Dec 3) — Go Systems Conf SF is a free online Go event taking place next week focusing on building and scaling Go-powered systems. Nice speaker lineup from companies like Monzo, VMware, and DigitalOcean.

Peer Calls: Group Peer-to-Peer Video Call System — Want to get in on the action of rolling out a video chat service? The core of this one is written in Go. You can play with an example deployment here.

p5: An Initial Port of Processing to Go — It’s early days for this project, but this brings some initial concepts from Processing, a popular visual programming system, to Go.

gdriver: Download Large Files From Google Drive — A command-line tool for downloading large files from Google Drive (using API v3).

Fleets: Automatically Delete Tweets, Retweets, and Likes — A new, craftily-named library for cleaning up your Twitter account that leans heavily on the Anaconda Go Twitter library.

Go Standard Library Benchmarks: Intel i5 vs Apple's M1 — If you’ve wondered how Apple’s newest Arm-based CPU fares with Go, these results are promising. As with all benchmarks, though, maintain a critical eye, especially as these are microbenchmarks against an older i5 CPU(!) but it's still worth reporting and there's more info below..

The Pros of Conds — If you’ve never used sync.Cond (and it’s not that popular in Go code) Luke wants to sell you on why and where it’s useful. If you have events you need to sit around and wait for, this article is for you.

Support for Geospatial Data - Written in Go — The most upvoted feature in the history of CockroachDB was support for geospatial data & indexing. And now it’s here. We’ve rebuilt all spatial data types and libraries in Go and we’d love for the Go community to test it out.

🐦  Thread: "Let's See How The New M1 Chips Do On Go Benchmarks!" — Filippo Valsorda of the Go team does eventually get to the benchmarks but the real takeaway here is his journey (signed binaries are mandatory on arm64?) to get there. If you’re thinking of buying a new Mac, read this.

Go’s Recurring Security Problem — “go get does a lot under the hood, including invoking third-party tools like git and clang in ways that are heavily influenced by package configurations. Ensuring that these invocations are safe is an uphill battle that Go hasn’t quite won yet.”

Writing a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper for Clickhouse in Go — Foreign data wrappers (FDWs) provide a way for Postgres servers to interact with external services (including other database systems), such as the ClickHouse OLAP DBMS covered here.

Using 'Dot Imports' in Views — Dot imports let you import a package into the local namespace (so no prefixing is needed!) – it’s not a good practice, but also not super commonly known, and Markus has speculated on an interesting use case for them at least.

Good and Bad Practices - A Limiting Perspective? — Certain patterns or approaches can get painted as being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ practices (see ‘dot imports’ above!) but is it always so binary? No, says Preslav.

An Introduction to AWS Lambda Functions in Go — This detailed look includes forays into logging, triggers (including API Gateway), using Context, and versioning the functions.

Refactoring for Better Testability — The first in a series of posts on refactoring existing code for testability. This is good practice! ;-)

How to Build Your Own Serverless Subscriber List with Go and AWS — How to build an email subscription sign up flow (complete with double opt in) using Lambda and DynamoDB. Can’t be bothered? Simple Subscribe is Victoria’s project with it all done for you ;-)

Go Constants and JSON: To Iota and Back — Constants and iota are very useful…up until you combine them with JSON serialization. Thankfully, there’s a Marshal (and Unmarshal) in town to help.

Checking If The Pi Is Done — Build a basic cluster monitoring system using a laptop, some Raspberry Pis, and Go’s RPC package.

go-getter: Download Things from Various Sources with a URL — Reading the title you might think.. “so it’s an HTTP client then?” Not exactly. A GitHub URL can become a git URL, local filenames work, S3, Mercurial and BitBucket URLs all work as intended too.

Eleven Years of Go — Unsurprisingly coming after Go's big tenth birthday comes its eleventh ;-) On behalf of the Go core team, Russ Cox writes about what the last year has been like for the project and where things are headed, so generics, pkg.go.dev, gopls, Gophercon, and Go modules all make an appearance.

WriteFreely: Distraction-Free Writing for the Web — Written in Go, WriteFreely is a self hosted app that helps bring the focus back to writing (no likes, notifications, or other distractions) and can work in a federated manner with other services.

gron: Make JSON Greppable — A tool written in Go that transforms JSON into more easily greppable assignments, so you can use grep and see the context/path of the result. Useful.

tfgo: Simplified Tensorflow Bindings for Go — Billed as Tensorflow ‘the gopher way’, tfgo wants to make using the popular machine learning platform from Go a lot easier and it now supports Tensorflow 2.3.

▶  How Go Helped Save HealthCare.gov — Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. “It is worth noting that, 7 years later, almost all of HealthCare.gov has been rebuilt, and substantial parts of it are in Go.”

How Riot Games Uses Go for Game Development Operations — The creators of League of Legends use Go for back-end server parts (tooling, monitoring, and game server management) and this is a reasonably extensive write up of how.

Go 1.15.5 and Go 1.14.12 Released — These releases address recently reported security issues including how various math/big integer and rational methods can cause panics with specific inputs and arbitrary code execution and injection (at build time) issue.

pkg.go.dev Has a New Look — We hinted at this last week, but should have been more patient 😄 pkg.go.dev provides a handy way to look up Go packages and the design has been improved and made more consistent. More metadata is shown for each package too, including how many other packages import it.

Storing Telegraf Telemetry in New Relic One — Add Telegraf to your expanding toolkit. Learn how to use an output plugin built on top of the Golang Telemetry SDK to ingest data with Telegraf, and send it as custom metrics to the New Relic Telemetry Data Platform.

structslop: Static Analyzer for Efficient Struct Packing — A tool that examines your Go code and recommends optimal struct field arrangements to help improve memory efficiency.