Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Russ Cox joins us this week to talk about how Russ got involved with Go, Vgo, error handling, updates on Go 2.0, more.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages.

Featuring:

• Russ Cox – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Jaffee joined the show and talked with us about Pilosa, building distributed index with Go, and other interesting projects and news.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages.

Featuring:

• Matt Jaffee – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Pilosa - Insanely Fast Queries on Really Big Data

Pilosa Docs

https://github.com/pilosa/pilosa

Pilosa Whitepaper

Supercharge Azure Cosmos DB with Pilosa

Go Northwest - Seattle 2018

Go on very small hardware (Part 1)

cu – idiomatic interface to the CUDA Driver API

gotop – A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop

dqlite – Distributed SQLite for Go applications

Erik - Michal Derkacz

Carlisia - Mastering io Pipes on JustForFunc

Brian - All Contributors

Matt - Liz Rice

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Florin Pățan joined the show and talked with us about GoLand, the pros and cons of using an IDE, his thoughts on the Go community, and managing Gopher Slack.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages.

Featuring:

• Florin Pățan – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jon Calhoun joined the show and talked with us about Gophercises, experiencing the joy of building cool things, creating content for Gophers, and other interesting projects and news.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• 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
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Gophercises

usegolang.com

Calhoun.io

Jon kite boarding, compliments of Calhoun Photography

Errors in Go

Go 1.10.1 released

Zerolog (allocation free JSON logging)

A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go

Vim-go 1.17 released

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Brian - GitPitch

Andrei - OpenTracing + govet

Brian - Luke Smith (who is awesome, check out mutt-wizard)

Jon - slate (cool window manager for macOS)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Andrei Matei joined the show and talked with us about CockroachDB (and why it’s easier to use than any RDBMS), distributed databases with Go, tracing, and other interesting projects and news.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• 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:

• Andrei Matei – GitHub
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Brian - GitPitch

Andrei - OpenTracing + govet

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Bill Kennedy joined the show and talked with Carlisia about learning Go, teaching Go (which is something we’ll do at some point or another), making good presentations, and other interesting projects and news.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• 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:

• Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Presentation help

Gopher Guides

Buffalo

Golang UK Conference 2016 - Dave Cheney - SOLID Go Design

Is Go An Object Oriented Language?

These articles will explain how to organize your Go packages:

CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++

Go Challenge

dotGo 2016 - Damian Gryski - Slices: Performance through cache-friendliness

GopherCon India - Matt Ellis

Dave Cheney - How to write a successful conference proposal

Resources for New Speakers

GopherChina

GopherCon Singapore

GopherCon Iceland

Women Who Go to Gophercon Denver 2018

StickerMule

How working at GitLab has changed my view on work and life

Learn to create web apps using Go (affiliate link)

Placement Pal

Flogo

“If boring repetitive things aren’t automated, a manager gets hired” – Niranjan Paranjape

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Bill - dep (shout out to Sam Boyer)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Carmen Andoh joined the show and talked with us about inclusivity, the 2017 Go Developer Survey, visualizing abstractions, and other interesting projects and news.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• 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:

• Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Skaffold

Slack-Term

amass

bettercap

grmon

CASPaxos

img

A Primer on Go Assembly

Go Packages we developed for our games

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Brian - jwt-go

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Leo Kalneus joined the show and talked with us about GopherCon Russia and the Go community in Russia. We also debunked a few myths about Siberia and of course talked about interesting Go projects and news.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• 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:

• Leonid Kalneus – Website, GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Golang Show (in Russian)

GopherCon Russia

Russian Companies using Go

Golang Slack (in Russian)

Telegram: proGO

Telegram: gogolang

Roundtable with #Golang Stars:: Building Predictability into Your Pipeline

Go 2017 Survey Results

New vgo posts by Russ Cox:

pwned-passwords

Ribs (Russian x-ray records)

GetContact (phone number search)

Words of Heard (Find a date with someone who uses the same password as you)

Gobot

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Erik - go-git

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Brian Scott joined the show and talked with us about Golang Flow, contributing to open source, functions as a service, building for the web with Buffalo, and other interesting projects and news.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Featuring:

• Brian Scott – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Golang Flow

Buffalo

Go support for AWS Lambda (YES!!)

OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple for Docker & Kubernetes

Go 1.10 released

Resources for New Speakers

Vgo - 5 Part series by Russ Cox:

Using Go as a scripting language in Linux

gitleaks - Searches full repo history for secrets and keys

Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go

Roundtable with #Golang Stars - Building Predictability into Your Pipeline

Each week on the show, we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Erik - Russ Cox, Sam Boyer, and everyone trying to solve the dependency management problem (you’re doing a great job!)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

This is another special “Ask Us Anything” episode where we answer more questions submitted by the community. We covered A LOT of ground, including the hardest things we’ve ever written in Go, how the community can drive adoption, what we’d change about Go, and our favorite: “what do gophers eat?”

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

• Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.

Featuring:

• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Sourcegraph - Idiomatic Go

microhq user-serv — db.go

jsgo

WASM port looking GOOD

Pop now supports associations!

By the time you read this go 1.10 will be released

tview - Rich interactive widgets for terminal-based UIs written in Go (very very cool)

Bill Kennedy - The Behavior of Channels

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!