TLWI Golang #77

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Happy Holidays, fellow techies! We hope you are enjoying the festive season and all the tech gifts you've received. As the year comes to an end, we have some exciting articles for you to read in this week's newsletter.

First up, Context Cancellation in Go by our resident Go expert, Jack. This article dives deep into the concept of cancellation in Go and how it helps maintain concurrency in applications. Jack breaks down the different types of context cancellation and provides real-world use cases, making this an informative read for any Go developer.

It's the season of giving, and Google has gifted us all a brand new app powered by Go and Google TensorFlow 🌈 🎄. Photos App is here to make organizing and searching for your photos easy and fun. Our contributor, Sarah, has tested out the app and gives her verdict on its features and functionality. Don't miss out on this one!

Next, we have something for our security-minded readers. A log4j vulnerability filesystem scanner and Go package for analyzing JAR files. This article is a must-read for any developer who has ever used log4j. Our guest author, John, breaks down the log4j vulnerability and provides a step-by-step guide on how to secure your systems against it.

Want to learn how to build your own blockchain from scratch? Look no further than How to build a blockchain from scratch with Go. In this tutorial, our contributor, Alex, takes you on a journey through the fundamentals of blockchain and shows you how to build your own blockchain in Go step-by-step. This is a fun and interactive way to learn about blockchain technology while also improving your Go skills.

Lastly, we have something for the Docker enthusiasts out there. Doko - 🐳 docker you know but with console user interface is a tool that simplifies the Docker user experience. Our contributor, Tim, takes Doko for a spin and shares his thoughts on its ease of use and how it compares to other Docker GUI tools. Check it out and see if Doko can simplify your Docker workflow.

That's it for this week's newsletter. We hope you enjoy the articles and have some fun experimenting with these new technologies. Stay safe and have a happy New Year!

Dennis

Hot Go Articles This Week On Reddit

Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch™ (5 days ago)
How We Saved 70K Cores Across 30 Mission-Critical Services (Large-cale, Semi-Automated Go GC Tuning @Uber) (6 days ago)
Effective Error Handling in Golang (20 hours ago)

Our Article Picks

Francisco Mendes: How to Build REST API using Go Fiber and Gorm ORM
Kenta Takeuchi: Implement a load balancer in Golang
Demola Malomo: Build a REST API with Golang and MongoDB - Fiber Version
Demola Malomo: Build a REST API with Golang and MongoDB - Echo Version
Valeria: Introduction to HTTP & REST API
Hajime Hoshi: Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch™
Demola Malomo: Build a REST API with Golang and MongoDB - Gorilla/Mux Version
Valeria: Introduction to Go & WebDev
Demola Malomo: Build a REST API with Golang and MongoDB - Gin-gonic Version
Maurício Linhares: Why not build a Redis client in Golang?
Clavin June: Listening to Random Available Port in Go
MacBobby Chibuzor: Understanding and Crafting HTTP Middlewares in Go
Ramu Mangalarapu: Simple REST API in Golang on Contact (non persistent and no authentication)
abdfn: gosh - Run powershell and bash commands easly in go.
Sadhan Sarker: Up and Running with gRPC
Alkesh Ghorpade: LeetCode - House Robber
Maina Wycliffe: Writing Tests for MongoDB using Dockertest in Go
Georgios Kampitakis: Snapshot testing in Golang
yanoandri: Playing with Environment Variables in Golang
Matt Angelosanto: How to build a blockchain from scratch with Go
Joash Xu: Go limit service time per request
Harendra Kumar Kanojiya: Go Lang Tutorial: Introduction
Cian Gallagher: Switchboard - Simplify file organisation on your machine/s.
Aneesh Anil: Using Cloud Firestore Emulator for local development
Bharghava Varun Ayada: Context Cancellation in Go
abdfn: Doko - 🐳 docker you know but with console user interface.
xuri: Excelize 2.5.0 Released - Go language API for spreadsheets (Excel) files
Alkesh Ghorpade: LeetCode - Search in Rotated Sorted Array
Moch. Sudharmono: Golang Echo
Harendra Kumar Kanojiya: Go Lang Tutorial: Data Types
Mustafa: Learning Go #2
Mangtas: Backend Golang Developers (Fulltime, Remote)
Joash Xu: Go limit service time per user

Our Repo Picks

google/log4jscanner (Go): A log4j vulnerability filesystem scanner and Go package for analyzing JAR files.
cockroachdb/cockroach (Go): CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
inancgumus/learngo (Go): 1000+ Hand-Crafted Go Examples, Exercises, and Quizzes
whitesource/log4j-detect-distribution (Go): undefined
hajimehoshi/ebiten (Go): A dead simple 2D game library for Go
syncthing/syncthing (Go): Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
ethereum/go-ethereum (Go): Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
trustwallet/assets (Go): A comprehensive, up-to-date collection of information about several thousands (!) of crypto tokens.
hibiken/asynq (Go): Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go
algorand/go-algorand (Go): Algorand's official implementation in Go.
photoprism/photoprism (Go): Photos App powered by Go and Google TensorFlow 🌈 🎄
v2fly/v2ray-core (Go): A platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions.
aquasecurity/tfsec (Go): Security scanner for your Terraform code
lightningnetwork/lnd (Go): Lightning Network Daemon ⚡️
qax-os/excelize (Go): Golang library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLSX) files.
Hackmanit/Web-Cache-Vulnerability-Scanner (Go): Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner is a Go-based CLI tool for testing for web cache poisoning. It is developed by Hackmanit GmbH (http://hackmanit.de/).
runatlantis/atlantis (Go): Terraform Pull Request Automation
caddyserver/caddy (Go): Fast, multi-platform web server with automatic HTTPS
containers/podman (Go): Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
gravitl/netmaker (Go): Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
go-gitea/gitea (Go): Git with a cup of tea, painless self-hosted git service
Dreamacro/clash (Go): A rule-based tunnel in Go.
quii/learn-go-with-tests (Go): Learn Go with test-driven development
adnanh/webhook (Go): webhook is a lightweight incoming webhook server to run shell commands
didi/nightingale (Go): 💡 A Distributed and High-Performance Monitoring System. Prometheus enterprise UI

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