Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering episodes

May 28, 2020The trouble with databases
Databases are tricky, especially at scale. In this episode Mat, Jaana, and Jon discuss different types of databases, the pros and cons of each, along with the many ways developers can have issues with databases. They also explore questions like, “Why are serial IDs problematic?” and “What alternatives are there if we aren’t using serial IDs?” while at it.
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Gophercises – Gophercises is a free course that will help you become more familiar with Go while developing your skills as a programmer. The course consists of 20 different mini-applications, packages, and tools that are each designed to teach you something unique about Go. Get started at gophercises.com/gotime
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Featuring:
Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
Spanner
Firestore
MySQL
Book: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
International Collegiate Programming Contest
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 6 min
May 21, 2020On community and safety
Johnny and Jon are joined by Denise to talk about her role at GitHub and what the community and safety team does to help open source project creators and contributors, GoCon Canada and the role of organizing a conference, and more.
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Gophercises – Gophercises is a free course that will help you become more familiar with Go while developing your skills as a programmer. The course consists of 20 different mini-applications, packages, and tools that are each designed to teach you something unique about Go. Get started at gophercises.com/gotime
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Featuring:
Denise Yu – Website, GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Concourse CI - CI tool that Denise mentioned working on.
Ginkgo - BDD testing library mentioned in the show
Testify - Go testing library mentioned in the show
cmp - Go comparison library mentioned in the show.
Let’s Sketch Tech - Workshops Denise is involved in for learning to sketch technical subjects.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
57 min
May 14, 2020Challenges of distributed messaging systems
Distributed systems are hard. Building a distributed messaging system for these systems to communicate is even harder. In this episode, we unpack some of the challenges of building distributed messaging systems (like NATS), including how Go makes that easy and/or hard as applicable.
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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
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Featuring:
Derek Collison – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
nats.go
What is the definition of “cattle not pets”?
Idempotence
Apache Kafka
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 19 min
May 07, 2020Black Hat Go
Put on your dark hoodie, turn all the lights off, and join the author of Black Hat Go as we explore the darker side of Go.
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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Tom Steele – GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Roberto Clapis – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Use promo code GOTIME for 30% off Black Hat Go through May 15th.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 7 min
April 30, 2020Immediate mode GUIs
Mat, Johnny and Jon are joined by Elias, creator of Gio, to discuss GUIs. Specifically, we explore the pros and cons of immediate vs retained mode and explore some examples of each, as well how some frameworks like React are attempting to bring the benefits of immediate mode to a retained mode world (the DOM).
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Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com.
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Featuring:
Elias Naur – GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Gio
Immediate mode
Retained mode - The opposite of Immediate mode.
Scatter - Federated chat client built with Gio using email for messaging.
Egon Elbre - Egon designed the Gio logo.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 4 min
April 23, 2020WebRTC in Go
The gang discusses WebRTC with Sean DuBois, creator of the Pion project and author of a pure Go WebRTC implementation. What exactly is WebRTC? Why is it so popular for video chatting? How does it work under the hood, and how does it compare with other real-time communication options?
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Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
Featuring:
Sean DuBois – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
WebRTC
Pion on Github
Discuss Pion in the Gophers Slack
NAT traversal
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 10 min
April 16, 2020The monolith vs microservices debate
What is a microservice, and what is a monolith? What differentiates them? When is a good time for your team to start considering the transition from monolith to microservice? And does using microservices mean you can’t use a monorepo?
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Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog
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Featuring:
Tom Wilkie – GitHub, X
Matt Heath – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Jsonnet - A data templating language for app and tool developers.
Monzo - Where Matt works with 1600+ microservices.
Grafana Labs - Where Tom works.
Prometheus - Open Source monitoring software Tom contributes to.
Community events
Go Remote Fest
go get -u community
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 10 min
April 09, 2020Organizing for the community
What does it take to organize a community event? How do you ensure it is diverse? What does diversity even mean? Tune in to learn directly from organizers of some of the most diverse Go meetups (Gophercon EU and Go Bridge).
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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog
Featuring:
Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
Ronna Steinberg – GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Gophercon EU
Women Who Go
Go Bridge
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 15 min
April 02, 2020Enterprise Go?
Bryan Liles joins Johnny and Mat for a wide-ranging discussion that starts with the question: what even is enterprise Go?
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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com
Featuring:
Bryan Liles – Website, GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Octant on GitHub
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 2 min
March 26, 2020WFH
Working from home can be challenging, especially amid school closings and everything else caused by COVID-19. In this episode panelists Jon, Mat, Carmen, and Mark share advice and experiences they have accumulated over many years of working from home. They cover separating your work space from your personal space, signaling to your family that you are busy, ways to keep track of the time, and suggestions for getting some exercise in when you can.
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Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.
Featuring:
Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
WFH tips:
https://time.com/5801725/work-from-home-remote-tips/
https://remoteyear.com/blog/top-8-remote-work-tips
Other links:
Fatih Arslan’s advice to assume a smiley follows everything
tmate - a terminal sharing tool
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 12 min

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