| GopherCon 2015 Roundup |
| 28 Jul 2015 |
| Tags: conference, report, gopher |
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| Andrew Gerrand |
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| * Introduction |
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| A few weeks ago, Go programmers from around the world descended on Denver, |
| Colorado for GopherCon 2015. The two-day, single-track conference attracted |
| more than 1,250 attendees—nearly double last year's number—and featured 22 |
| talks presented by Go community members. |
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| Today the organizers have posted the videos online so you can now enjoy the |
| conference from afar: |
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| [[http://gophercon.com/schedule/8july/][Day 1]]: |
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| - Go, Open Source, Community — Russ Cox ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvZOdpd_9tc][video]]) |
| ([[https://blog.golang.org/open-source][text]]) |
| - Go kit: A Standard Library for Distributed Programming — Peter Bourgon |
| ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AjaZi4QuGo][video]]) ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Go%20kit/go-kit.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Delve Into Go — Derek Parker ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InG72scKPd4][video]]) |
| ([[http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/derekparker/talks/gophercon-2015/delve-into-go.slide][slides]]) |
| - How a complete beginner learned Go as her first backend language in 5 |
| weeks — Audrey Lim ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZh8uCInEfw][video]]) |
| ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Audrey%20Lim%20-%20How%20a%20Complete%20Beginner%20Picked%20Up%20Go%20as%20Her%20First%20Backend%20Language%20in%205%20weeks/audreylim_slides.pdf][slides]]) |
| - A Practical Guide to Preventing Deadlocks and Leaks in Go — Richard |
| Fliam ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EW1hZ8DVyw][video]]) |
| - Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem — Rick Hudson ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiv1JOfMjm0][video]]) |
| ([[https://talks.golang.org/2015/go-gc.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Simplicity and Go — Katherine Cox-Buday ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6mEo_FHZ5Y][video]]) |
| ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Katherine%20Cox-Buday:%20Simplicity%20%26%20Go/Simplicity%20%26%20Go.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Rebuilding Parse.com in Go - an opinionated rewrite — Abhishek Kona |
| ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f9LS-OWfeA][video]]) ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Abhishek%20Kona%20Rewriting%20Parse%20in%20GO/myslides.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Prometheus: Designing and Implementing a Modern Monitoring Solution in |
| Go — Björn Rabenstein ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V7eJ0jN8-E][video]]) |
| ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Bj%C3%B6rn%20Rabenstein%20-%20Prometheus/slides.pdf][slides]]) |
| - What Could Go Wrong? — Kevin Cantwell ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3QXZ-x5yI][video]]) |
| - The Roots of Go — Baishampayan Ghose ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hPOopcJ8-E][video]]) |
| ([[https://speakerdeck.com/bg/the-roots-of-go][slides]]) |
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| [[http://gophercon.com/schedule/9july/][Day 2]]: |
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| - The Evolution of Go — Robert Griesemer ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReKdcpNyQg][video]]) |
| ([[https://talks.golang.org/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide][slides]]) |
| - Static Code Analysis Using SSA — Ben Johnson ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-gaMvWfQY][video]]) |
| ([[https://speakerdeck.com/benbjohnson/static-code-analysis-using-ssa][slides]]) |
| - Go on Mobile — Hana Kim ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ6-HyPxHKg][video]]) |
| ([[https://talks.golang.org/2015/gophercon-go-on-mobile.slide][slides]]) |
| - Go Dynamic Tools — Dmitry Vyukov ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xrxRsIbSU][video]]) |
| ([[https://talks.golang.org/2015/dynamic-tools.slide][slides]]) |
| - Embrace the Interface — Tomás Senart ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyDkyFjzFVc][video]]) |
| ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Tom%C3%A1s%20Senart%20-%20Embrace%20the%20Interface/ETI.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Uptime: Building Resilient Services with Go — Blake Caldwell ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBJQA4clfc][video]]) |
| ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Blake%20Caldwell%20-%20Uptime:%20Building%20Resilient%20Services%20with%20Go/2015-GopherCon-Talk-Uptime.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Cayley: Building a Graph Database — Barak Michener ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9kWbPmSyCI][video]]) |
| ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Barak%20Michener%20-%20Cayley:%20Building%20a%20Graph%20Database/Cayley%20-%20Building%20a%20Graph%20Database.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Code Generation For The Sake Of Consistency — Sarah Adams ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAgHwfjg1s][video]]) |
| - The Many Faces of Struct Tags — Sam Helman and Kyle Erf ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCRvMunkdA][video]]) |
| ([[https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Sam%20Helman%20%26%20Kyle%20Erf%20-%20The%20Many%20Faces%20of%20Struct%20Tags/StructTags.pdf][slides]]) |
| - Betting the Company on Go and Winning — Kelsey Hightower ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqVbLlHqAeY][video]]) |
| - How Go Was Made — Andrew Gerrand ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ht89TxZZnk][video]]) |
| ([[https://talks.golang.org/2015/how-go-was-made.slide][slides]]) |
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| The [[http://gophercon.com/schedule/10july/][hack day]] was also a ton of fun, |
| with hours of [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBeHqlHM8DmvS8axgbrpvF9b][lightning talks]] |
| and a range of activities from programming robots |
| to a Magic: the Gathering tournament. |
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| Huge thanks to the event organizers Brian Ketelsen and Eric St. Martin and |
| their production team, the sponsors, the speakers, and the attendees for making |
| this such a fun and action-packed conference. Hope to see you there next year! |
