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The Go Compiler and Go 1.8 Dec 15, 2016

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Keith Randall from the Go team joined the show to talk about why a new compiler, what we gain from SSA, what’s next for the compiler, Go 1.8, and the goals/plans for Go 1.9.

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StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.

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Keith Randall – Website, GitHub
Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

1.8 Beta — get it while it’s hot!
Inside the Map Implementation - from Keith Randall and GopherCon 2016
GothamGo videos are on YouTube
How Do They Do It: Timers in Go — Contributed by Alexander Morozov & Vyacheslav Bakhmutov
Contributing to the Go project — Contributed by Matt Layher
GoLab — The Italian conference on Go, Jan 20-21
Dominik Honnef’s — An incomplete list of tools from the Go tool chain

Free Software Friday

Erik — Arduino maker community
Carlisia — json incremental digger from simeji
Keith — Delve
Bill — go-hep and gonum - Go-based software for the High Energy Physics community

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Teaching and Learning Go Dec 14, 2016

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Todd McLeod joined the show to talk about teaching and learning Go, his work as an Instructor at Fresno City College, Udemy and on YouTube.

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Minio – Minio is an Amazon S3 compatible object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops. It’s also open source!
Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.

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Todd McLeod – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X

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Free Software Friday

Brian - Microsoft, Rich Turner and the whole WSL team for replacing the three computers on my desk with one Surface Book
Carlisia - All the Go meetups out there

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Juju, Jujucharms, Gorram Nov 10, 2016

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Nate Finch joined the show this week to talk about Juju, Charms, maturing a project along side Go, Gorram, finding your happy path, and more.

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StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
Code School – On Track With Go — Learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures in this new course for those getting started with Go.

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Nate Finch – Website, GitHub, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

juju - is devops distilled
jujucharms
Gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
Go Proverbs
Vanity Imports with Hugo

Free Software Friday

Erik: Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers
Carlisia: Kinetic - High-Performance AWS Kinesis Client for Go. An easier way to access kinesis shards and poll them etc, takes all that logic out and makes stuff easy.
Nate: Hugo - A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love in Go

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Open Sourcing Chain's Developer Platform Nov 03, 2016

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Tess Rinearson joined the show to talk about Chain launching their open source developer platform, choosing an open source license, open sourcing Chain Core, and the future of this powerful blockchain written in Go.

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Code School – On Track With Go — Learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures in this new course for those getting started with Go.

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Tess Rinearson – Website, GitHub, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - The Go Tour and a shout out to Andrew Gerrand
Erik - A command line tool to view namespaces and cgroups, useful for low-level container prodding
Carlisia - Listing of open source projects that have issues labeled with Help Wanted

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Go work groups and hardware projects Oct 27, 2016

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Jaana B. Dogan joined the show to talk about hardware geekery, on-boarding people into Go, the state of the feedback loop with the Go team, and her initiative to create Go Work Groups.

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Code School – On Track With Go — Learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures in this new course for those getting started with Go.

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Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Cory LaNou – X

Show Notes:

Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Cory - Shout out to the organizers of all local Go meetups. Specifically the organizers of Chicago Ultimate Golang (Varun) and Minneapolis Ultimate Golang (Eric, Jack, Nick, and Calvin) — each of whom put those cities back on track.
Erik - Kubernetes Special Interest Groups
Carlisia - Gophers Slack @gopher bot

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Building a startup on Go Oct 20, 2016

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Blake Mizerany joined the show to talk about coming to Go from Ruby, Go’s growth and adoption over the past 7 years, adopting external dependencies, building a startup on Go, and coding as CEO.

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Code School – New course for those getting started with Go. On Track With Go — learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures.

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

Show Notes:

Blake had to take off early from the show, so at around 20 minutes in Brian, Carlisia and Erik discuss the latest projects on their Go radar.

Introducing Changelog 2.0
Blake Mizerany at dotGo 2014 — Three fallacies of dependencies
Cory LaNou’s Running a Go Meetup project
go-conv - Conversions without using reflection across most built-in Go types through type assertion switches.
gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
SummitDB - In-memory NoSQL database with ACID transactions, Raft consensus, and Redis API
From Matt Holt - JSON-to-Go converts JSON to Go struct
From Matt Holt - curl-to-Go instantly converts curl commands to Go code
Write React Components in Go
go-qemu - Go packages to interact with QEMU using the QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
myLG - an open source software utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one network diagnostic tool.
stability-badges - SVG badges for Go projects
netstat - Find out who is listening on a specific port
lsof - List of open files or open ports
strace - It’s diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

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Kubernetes, Containers, Go Oct 13, 2016

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Kelsey Hightower joined the show to talk about the work he’s doing at Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud, Kubernetes cluster federation, Containers, and of course Go.

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Code School – New course for those getting started with Go. On Track With Go — learn what makes Go a great fit for concurrent programs and how you can use it to leverage the power of modern computer architectures.

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

Show Notes:

Kubernetes 1.4 — Making it easy to run on Kubernetes anywhere
Kubernetes Certificate Manager — Manage Let’s Encrypt certificates for a Kubernetes cluster
Get started with Kubernetes? Check out Kelsey’s Kubernetes The Hard Way tutorial
From Luna Duclos — kube-cert-http - An adapter that lets Go’s net/http package fetch certificates from Kubernetes
You should read this -> Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Hello Universe from Kelsey Hightower. What if applications could deploy themselves?
Another awesome tutorial on Kubernetes from Kelsey Hightower — Kubernetes cluster federation tutorial
Go Walkthrough from Ben Johnson - A series of walkthroughs to help you understand the Go standard library.
Here’s an example of good k8s documentation
This works pretty well for bootstrapping a cluster too with all the dashboards, metrics, etc
Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Working Groups
CoreOS rkt — a container engine for Linux designed to be composable, secure, and built on standards
The Twelve-Factor App — a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps
The Datacenter as a Computer by Urs Hölzle - An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second Edition

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Programming Practices, Exercism, Open Source Oct 06, 2016

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Katrina Owen joined the show to explore ideas about open source, code review, learning to program, becoming a savvy programmer, mentoring, projects she’s working on, and also her very prominent and amazing code learning tool Exercism.

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Katrina Owen – Website, GitHub, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

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Discussion

Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - Go programming language
Carlisia - Exercism and Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.
Erik - Bosun: monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange
Katrina - Hoodie: Software for building applications for the web and iOS

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Go in 5 Minutes & design patterns Sep 22, 2016

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Aaron Schlesinger joined the show this week to talk about his Go in 5 Minutes series of screencasts, and design patterns in Go.

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Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.

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