In this final issue of the year, we look back at the most popular Go news and links of 2016.We hope you have a happy holiday season and we'll see you in 2017 :-)
Go Best Practices, Six Years in
A great set of insights and tips from an experienced Go developer. This got a lot of love on social media and is a must read.
Peter Bourgon
What To Look Forward To in Go 1.8
Still in beta, but due for release soon, this brief explanation by Brad Fitzpatrick was our most popular link of the year. This more extensive writeup by Tyler Christensen was also popular.
Go’s Alias Proposal and Concerns of Google 'Controlling' Go
A worthwhile summary of an issue still affecting Go, although the feature was recently dropped from inclusion in 1.8 after some initial prototyping revealed issues.
Jack Lindamood
A Visual Map of Your Redis Memory
Do you know what's taking up all your Redis memory? RedisMonitor creates an interactive map of your Redis memory to show you. Starts at just $7 per month.
Redisgreen sponsored
Go: How I Start
A ‘from scratch’ look at beginning to use Go and how Peter Bourgon, a Go evangelist and engineer at SoundCloud, likes to get a Go project started.
Peter Bourgon
10 Million Concurrent WebSockets
A look at how using a stock debian-8 image and a Go-backed server, you can handle 10M concurrent connections with low throughput and moderate jitter.
Goroutines
How Uber's Highest Query per Second Service is Built on Go
A look at how Uber approached building a geofence lookup system in Go and how Go has helped them build and scale it so quickly.
Uber
Build Your Own Container in Fewer Than 100 Lines of Go
A look at how it’s possible to build a simple container using a small amount of Go.
Julian Friedman