| # Golang UK 2015 | |
| 9 Oct 2015 | |
| Tags: conference, golanguk | |
| Summary: Reporting from GolangUK 2015, the first London Go conference. | |
| Francesc Campoy | |
| ## | |
| On August 21st the Go community gathered in London for the first edition of | |
| [Golang UK](https://golanguk.com). The conference featured two parallel | |
| tracks and nearly 400 gophers attended. | |
| .image gouk15/gouk.jpg 300 _ | |
| The conference started with the opening keynote by [David Calavera](https://twitter.com/calavera) | |
| called Crossing the Language Chasm ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVRnEZ4v_w&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| and continued with two concurrently executed [tracks](http://golanguk.com/schedule/). | |
| Main track: | |
| - Stupid Gopher Tricks, | |
| by [Andrew Gerrand](https://twitter.com/enneff) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECh7X07m6E&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - Complex Concurrency Patterns in Go, | |
| by [Evan Huus](https://twitter.com/eapache) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HOO5gIgyMg&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - Code Analysis [no reading required], | |
| by [Francesc Campoy](https://twitter.com/francesc) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oorX84tBMqo&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - Go kit: a toolkit for microservices, | |
| by [Peter Bourgon](https://twitter.com/peterbourgon) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6sd4d4hxk&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - Dependency Management Conundrum, | |
| by [William Kennedy](https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhucJShJU8&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| Side track: | |
| - Building APIs, | |
| by [Mat Ryer](https://twitter.com/matryer) ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIm8UkSf6RA&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - Building a Bank with Go, | |
| by [Matt Heath](https://twitter.com/mattheath) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJkLfujOts&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - CockroachDB: Make Data Easy, | |
| by [Ben Darnell](https://twitter.com/bendarnell) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oqpLmQ3LE&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - Understanding memory allocation in Go, | |
| by [Dean Elbaz](https://twitter.com/DeanElbaz) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoieOpy5hE&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| - Whispered Secrets, | |
| by [Eleanor McHugh](https://twitter.com/feyeleanor) | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViBRx-F4Z2U&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)) | |
| Finally [Damian Gryski](https://twitter.com/dgryski) | |
| took the stage for the closing keynote | |
| ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiSyFc10Jj0&list=PLDWZ5uzn69ezRJYeWxYNRMYebvf8DerHd)), | |
| 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, | |
| [William Kennedy](https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet) | |
| gave a full day Go workshop. | |
| It was a great conference, so congratulations to the organizers and see you next year in London! |