Go videos from Google I/O 2012
2 Jul 2012
Tags: talk, video, concurrency, appengine, ethos

Andrew Gerrand

* Introduction

Phew! Google I/O is over for another year, and what an event it was. Thanks to our guest speakers and everyone who attended the four Go sessions. It was a lot of fun.

Here are the session videos:

*Go*concurrency*patterns* by Rob Pike

_Concurrency_is_the_key_to_designing_high_performance_network_services._Go's_concurrency_primitives_(goroutines_and_channels)_provide_a_simple_and_efficient_means_of_expressing_concurrent_execution._In_this_talk_we_see_how_tricky_concurrency_problems_can_be_solved_gracefully_with_simple_Go_code._

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* Go in production

_Since_Go's_release_in_2009_many_companies_(besides_Google,_of_course)_have_used_the_language_to_build_cool_stuff._In_this_session_Gustavo_Niemeyer_(Canonical),_Keith_Rarick_(Heroku),_Evan_Shaw_(Iron.io),_and_Patrick_Crosby_(StatHat)_share_their_first-hand_experience_using_Go_in_production_environments._

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* Meet the Go team

_A_panel_discussion_with_David_Symonds,_Robert_Griesemer,_Rob_Pike,_Ken_Thompson,_Andrew_Gerrand,_and_Brad_Fitzpatrick._

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*Computing*Map*Tiles*with*Go*on*App*Engine* by Chris Broadfoot and Andrew Gerrand

_In_this_talk_we_use_the_Maps_API_and_Go_on_App_Engine_to_build_an_app_to_build_custom_tile_sets_for_Google_Maps._The_app_demonstrates_using_Go's_suitability_for_computation_in_the_cloud_and_App_Engine's_key_scalability_features,_such_as_Task_Queues_and_Backends._

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