GolangUK 2015
09 Oct 2015
Tags: conference, golanguk

Francesc Campoy

* Introduction

On August 21st the Go community gathered in London for the first edition of
[[https://golanguk.com][Golang UK]]. The conference featured two parallel
tracks and nearly 400 gophers attended.

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The conference started with the opening keynote by [[https://twitter.com/calavera][David Calavera]]
called Crossing the Language Chasm ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVRnEZ4v_w&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
and continued with two concurrently executed [[http://golanguk.com/schedule/][tracks]].

Main track:

- Stupid Gopher Tricks,
  by [[https://twitter.com/enneff][Andrew Gerrand]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECh7X07m6E&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- Complex Concurrency Patterns in Go,
  by [[https://twitter.com/eapache][Evan Huus]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HOO5gIgyMg&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- Code Analysis [no reading required],
  by [[https://twitter.com/francesc][Francesc Campoy]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oorX84tBMqo&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- Go kit: a toolkit for microservices,
  by [[https://twitter.com/peterbourgon][Peter Bourgon]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6sd4d4hxk&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- Dependency Management Conundrum,
  by [[https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet][William Kennedy]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhucJShJU8&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])

Side track:

- Building APIs,
  by [[https://twitter.com/matryer][Mat Ryer]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIm8UkSf6RA&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- Building a Bank with Go,
  by [[https://twitter.com/mattheath][Matt Heath]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJkLfujOts&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- CockroachDB: Make Data Easy,
  by [[https://twitter.com/bendarnell][Ben Darnell]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oqpLmQ3LE&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- Understanding memory allocation in Go,
  by [[https://twitter.com/DeanElbaz][Dean Elbaz]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoieOpy5hE&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])
- Whispered Secrets,
  by [[https://twitter.com/feyeleanor][Eleanor McHugh]]
  ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViBRx-F4Z2U&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]])

Finally [[https://twitter.com/dgryski][Damian Gryski]]
took the stage for the closing keynote
([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiSyFc10Jj0&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd][video]]),
giving an overview of how the Go community has evolved over time and hinting
to what the future might look like.

On the day before the conference,
[[https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet][William Kennedy]]
gave a full day Go workshop.

It was a great conference, so congratulations to the organizers and see you next year in London!