- Two new libraries to make it easier to write IoT applications in Go - betwixt - Betwixt implements the OMA Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol for Device Management and Monitoring, canopus - CoAP Client/Server implementation (RFC 7252).
- Netflix released an early beta of rend, their memcahced proxy.
- Need to do some distributed lock management? redsync is a Redis-based distributed mutual exclusion lock implementation
- If standard library compatibility isn’t required, and you think you need something faster than net/http, there is fasthttp. A fast HTTP package for Go
- Quite a bit of activity related to the Let’s Encrypt project this week. An acme certificate acquisition tool, and the lego ACME library
- A support library for working with semantic versioning tags, semver.
- If you need to put a little distance between you and your filesystem, give afero a try.
- From a recent HackerNews thread on hiring in December
we learned of a whole new set of companies who are using Go:- New Relic - Maker of applicatin performance mangaement things.
- Opendoor - Trying to make home buying suck less.
- ReviewTrackers - Helping brands keep up with their customers online
- Sagan Systems - Customer support and communication tools for a mobile era
- SessionM - Mobile marketing platform
- SuperHuman - Email for power users
- Go2Mobi - Mobile audience ad targeting
- JustWatch - Search engine for streaming content (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO Now, etc)
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Ebay released their HTTP load-balancing router,
fabio a while ago, putting them firmly into the Go-using crowd. - Netflix - github
Miscellaneous Edits:
- Ian Lance Taylor updated the cgo wiki page
recommended against the user of reflect.SliceHeader.
Thank you to all of our contributors (changelog order):
- Zubair Hamed
- Dave Cheney
- Ian Lance Taylor
- Matt Skone