| # Golang UK 2015 |
| 9 Oct 2015 |
| Tags: conference, golanguk |
| Summary: Reporting from GolangUK 2015, the first London Go conference. |
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| Francesc Campoy |
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| ## |
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| 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. |
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| .image gouk15/gouk.jpg 300 _ |
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| 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/). |
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| Main track: |
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| - 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)) |
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| Side track: |
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| - 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)) |
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| 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. |
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| On the day before the conference, |
| [William Kennedy](https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet) |
| gave a full day Go workshop. |
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| It was a great conference, so congratulations to the organizers and see you next year in London! |
