Alexander Neumann joined the show to talk about using Go to write backup software, solving tough problems like deduplication, scratching your own itch, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Alexander Neumann – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
• Ashley Willis – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Restic - Backups done right!

Chunker - Implementation of Content Defined Chunking (CDC) in Go

GopherFest 2017 Videos

Go 1.8.3 released

Francesc - State of Go

“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” | “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”

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.

Ashley - Kelsey Hightower

Erik - Brendan Gregg

Brian - barista (i3 status bar written in Go!)

Alex - rofi + rofi-pass

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!