2016 Wrap Up
2016 was an amazing year for Go and for the Go community. New conferences popped up all over the globe, and there were some amazing new projects written in Go.
Go 1.8
With Go following a predetermined release schedule of February - August and a Release Candidate for Go 1.8 just a few days after this article, it looks like we should be able to talk about Go 1.
Introducing Go to your organization
Go is without a doubt a growing language. Some still consider it a young language, due to the fact that it was released “just” under 5 years ago.
Promoting the Quality and Collaboration of Your Open Source Project
So your open source project is on GitHub. It has tests, an awesome logo, probably a few stars, and maybe even a few other contributors.
Testing distributed systems in Go
What is etcd etcd is a key-value store for the most critical data of distributed systems. Use cases include applications running on Container Linux by CoreOS, which enables automatic Linux kernel updates.
A little bit of Machine Learning: Playing with Google's Prediction API
Before we get started, let’s begin by making clear that this isn’t going to be a deep dive on TensorFlow, neural networks, inductive logic, Bayesian networks, genetic algorithms or any other sub-heading from the Machine Learning Wikipedia article.
Writing an API Client in Go
Let’s say you need to write a client that talks to a third party API, like the AWS API, or the Twilio API. Go gives you a lot of tools that can help you write a really good client, but you have to know how to take advantage of them!
Predicting genetic diseases with CloudForest
CloudForest is a machine learning project dedicated to the construction of Random Forests built entirely in Go. It was created by Ryan Bressler. Random Forests are a machine learning algorithm based around the construction of many single classification trees, each splitting both...
Teaching Go to complete beginners
TL;DR How about arranging a GoBridge workshop for beginners as your New Year’s resolution? Teach Go to complete beginners Being a good Go programmer is definitely good.
Implementing Git's Compression In Go
Implementing Git’s Compression in Go Git + Go = Gitgo Gitgo is a pure Go library for core Git functions. As a ground-up implementation with no C bindings, it implements the entire structure of Git repositories from scratch.