| Go at Google I/O and Gopher SummerFest |
| 6 Oct 2014 |
| Tags: conference, io, report |
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| Francesc Campoy |
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| * Introduction |
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| The week of June 23rd was a good week for gophers in San Francisco. Go was a big |
| part of [[https://www.google.com/events/io][Google I/O]] on Wednesday and |
| Thursday, and on Monday we took advantage of the large gopher population to run |
| the [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/170421402/][Go SummerFest]], a |
| special instance of the [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf][GoSF]] meetup. This |
| blog post is a recap of both events. |
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| * Gopher SummerFest |
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| .image io2014/summerfest.jpg _ 800 |
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| On the Monday, more than 200 gophers gathered at the Google office in San |
| Francisco to hear a series of talks: |
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| - The State of Go, ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVQm9tdncxWnJGUTQ/edit][slides]] and [[http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/state-go][video]]) by Andrew Gerrand. |
| - I was wrong, again! ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVTTUwS25qaFlzMGs/edit][slides]] and [[http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/why-we-use-go][video]]), by Derek Collison. |
| - Go at Splice ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVZklnNnJITlhSbXc/edit][slides]]), by Matt Aimonetti |
| - Quick testing with quick ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVVElmOHpwamp4aTA/edit][slides]]), by Evan Shaw |
| - Something about Go (no slides), by Blake Mizerany. |
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| More comments and pictures from the event are available on the |
| [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/170421402/][meetup event page]]. |
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| * Go at Google I/O |
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| On the Wednesday and Thursday, Go was at Google I/O in two different |
| formats: the Go booth in the sandbox area and the Go code labs available in the |
| code lab area and all around the world through |
| [[https://www.google.com/events/io/io-extended][I/O Extended]]. |
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| ** The Go booth |
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| .image io2014/booth.jpg _ 800 |
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| The Go booth was part of the Developer Sandbox area. |
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| For the two days of the conference, some gophers from Google and other |
| companies gave a series of talks and demonstrations. The talks were not |
| recorded, but the slides and some screencasts and blog posts will be shared |
| soon. |
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| - Organizing Go Code, by David Crawshaw. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/organizeio.slide#1][slides]]) |
| - Testing Techniques, by Andrew Gerrand. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndmB0bj7eyw][video]] and [[https://talks.golang.org/2014/testing.slide#1][slides]]) |
| - Go for Java Developers, by Francesc Campoy. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/go4java.slide#1][slides]]) |
| - Camlistore: Android, ARM, App Engine, Everywhere, by Brad Fitzpatrick. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/camlistore.slide#1][slides]]) |
| - Go Compilation Complexities, by Ian Lance Taylor. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/compiling.slide#1][slides]]) |
| - SourceGraph: a Code Search Engine in Go, by Quinn Slack. ([[https://youtu.be/-DpKaoPz8l8][video]] and [[https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/sourcegraph/talks/google-io-2014/gio2014.slide#1][slides]]) |
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| We also organized Q&A sessions and lightning talks by members of the Go |
| community: |
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| - [[https://twitter.com/bradrydzewski][Brad Rydzewski]] talked about his project [[https://drone.io/][drone.io]]. |
| - [[https://twitter.com/barakmich][Barak Michener]] presented [[https://github.com/google/cayley][Cayley]], an open source graph database. |
| - [[https://twitter.com/mattetti][Matt Aimonetti]] discussed how Go is used at [[https://splice.com/][Splice]]. |
| - [[https://twitter.com/ssougou][Sugu Sougoumarane]] talked about how [[https://github.com/youtube/vitess][vitess]] solved scalability problems at YouTube. ([[https://youtu.be/midJ6b1LkA0][video]]) |
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| ** The Go code lab |
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| This year attendees of Google I/O had a code lab area with self-service |
| computers where they could sit and learn Go. The code labs were also available |
| to anyone through the Google I/O extended brand. You can try it yourself at |
| [[https://io2014codelabs.appspot.com/][io2014codelabs.appspot.com]]. |
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| .image io2014/collage.jpg _ 800 |
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| * Conclusion |
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| Thanks to the organizers, speakers, and attendees who helped make these events a |
| great success. See you next year. (Or at [[http://dotgo.eu][dotGo]] this week!) |
