2015 Year in Review
Looking back on 2015 has humbled us here at Gopher Academy. What an amazing year we’ve had. Let’s review some of the highlights: We’ve published dozens of community-written articles.
2D Game Libraries for Go
By now, we all know that Go is a great language for writing servers and command line tools. But what about games? Can you make desktop, web, or mobile games in Go too?
etcd: distributed key-value store with grpc/http2
What is etcd? etcd is a distributed, consistent key-value store, written in Go. Similar to how Linux distributions typically use /etc to store local configuration data, etcd can be thought of as a reliable store for distributed configuration data.
Understanding and using the vendor folder
With the release of Go 1.5, there is a new way the go tool can discover go packages. This method is off by default and the surrounding tools, such as goimports, do not understand that folder layout.
Glow: Map Reduce for Golang
Having been a Java developer for many years, I have simply lost interest in Java and want to code everything in Go, mostly due to Go’s simplicity and performance.
What is good code?
I’ve been wanting to write this for a long time, just to clarify my thoughts on the subject. Now, on vacations, I took a couple of days and finally did it. This is a personal opinion based on my personal experience and tons of books I have read, and I am not, by any means,...
Symmetric API Testing
I maintain Anaconda, the Twitter client library for Go. There are a lot of interesting things I could write about Anaconda - for example, automatic rate-limiting and throttling using the tokenbucket library.
Lessons in Go Learned while Implementing SHIELD
Quick background: What is SHIELD? SHIELD is a backup solution for Cloud Foundry and BOSH deployed services such as Redis, PostgreSQL, and Docker. (For the interested, here is a quick summary of the basics of BOSH and Cloud Foundry.
Tiny Linux OSes with Go
Small disclaimer: This is much more fun than it is useful For a while now, we’ve been seeing new “cloud” OSes crop up, like CoreOS and RancherOS.
Geographical data manipulation using go
GIS open source world is dominated by C/C++, Java and Python code. Libraries like PROJ4, JTS, GEOS or GDAL are at the core of most of the open source geospatial projects.