_content/blog/gophercon2015.md

---
title: GopherCon 2015 Roundup
date: 2015-07-28
by:
- Andrew Gerrand
tags:
- conference
- report
- gopher
summary: Reporting from GopherCon 2015.
---


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.

{{image "gophercon2015/cowboy.jpg" 550}}

<p>
<small>The Cowboy Gopher (a toy given to each attendee) watches over the ranch.<br>
<i>Photograph by <a href="https://twitter.com/nathany/status/619861336399351808">Nathan Youngman</a>. Gopher by Renee French.</i>
</small>
</p>

Today the organizers have posted the videos online so you can now enjoy the
conference from afar:

[Day 1](http://gophercon.com/schedule/8july/):

  - Go, Open Source, Community — Russ Cox ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvZOdpd_9tc))
    ([text](/blog/open-source))
  - Go kit: A Standard Library for Distributed Programming — Peter Bourgon
    ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AjaZi4QuGo)) ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Go%20kit/go-kit.pdf))
  - Delve Into Go — Derek Parker ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InG72scKPd4))
    ([slides](http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/derekparker/talks/gophercon-2015/delve-into-go.slide))
  - How a complete beginner learned Go as her first backend language in 5
    weeks — Audrey Lim ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZh8uCInEfw))
    ([slides](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))
  - A Practical Guide to Preventing Deadlocks and Leaks in Go — Richard
    Fliam ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EW1hZ8DVyw))
  - Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem — Rick Hudson ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiv1JOfMjm0))
    ([slides](/talks/2015/go-gc.pdf))
  - Simplicity and Go — Katherine Cox-Buday ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6mEo_FHZ5Y))
    ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Katherine%20Cox-Buday:%20Simplicity%20%26%20Go/Simplicity%20%26%20Go.pdf))
  - Rebuilding Parse.com in Go - an opinionated rewrite — Abhishek Kona
    ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f9LS-OWfeA)) ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Abhishek%20Kona%20Rewriting%20Parse%20in%20GO/myslides.pdf))
  - Prometheus: Designing and Implementing a Modern Monitoring Solution in
    Go — Björn Rabenstein ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V7eJ0jN8-E))
    ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Bj%C3%B6rn%20Rabenstein%20-%20Prometheus/slides.pdf))
  - What Could Go Wrong? — Kevin Cantwell ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3QXZ-x5yI))
  - The Roots of Go — Baishampayan Ghose ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hPOopcJ8-E))
    ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/bg/the-roots-of-go))

[Day 2](http://gophercon.com/schedule/9july/):

  - The Evolution of Go — Robert Griesemer ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ReKdcpNyQg))
    ([slides](/talks/2015/gophercon-goevolution.slide))
  - Static Code Analysis Using SSA — Ben Johnson ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-gaMvWfQY))
    ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/benbjohnson/static-code-analysis-using-ssa))
  - Go on Mobile — Hana Kim ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ6-HyPxHKg))
    ([slides](/talks/2015/gophercon-go-on-mobile.slide))
  - Go Dynamic Tools — Dmitry Vyukov ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xrxRsIbSU))
    ([slides](/talks/2015/dynamic-tools.slide))
  - Embrace the Interface — Tomás Senart ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyDkyFjzFVc))
    ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Tom%C3%A1s%20Senart%20-%20Embrace%20the%20Interface/ETI.pdf))
  - Uptime: Building Resilient Services with Go — Blake Caldwell ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBJQA4clfc))
    ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Blake%20Caldwell%20-%20Uptime:%20Building%20Resilient%20Services%20with%20Go/2015-GopherCon-Talk-Uptime.pdf))
  - Cayley: Building a Graph Database — Barak Michener ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9kWbPmSyCI))
    ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Barak%20Michener%20-%20Cayley:%20Building%20a%20Graph%20Database/Cayley%20-%20Building%20a%20Graph%20Database.pdf))
  - Code Generation For The Sake Of Consistency — Sarah Adams ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAgHwfjg1s))
  - The Many Faces of Struct Tags — Sam Helman and Kyle Erf ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCRvMunkdA))
    ([slides](https://github.com/gophercon/2015-talks/blob/master/Sam%20Helman%20%26%20Kyle%20Erf%20-%20The%20Many%20Faces%20of%20Struct%20Tags/StructTags.pdf))
  - Betting the Company on Go and Winning — Kelsey Hightower ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqVbLlHqAeY))
  - How Go Was Made — Andrew Gerrand ([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ht89TxZZnk))
    ([slides](/talks/2015/how-go-was-made.slide))

The [hack day](http://gophercon.com/schedule/10july/) was also a ton of fun,
with hours of [lightning talks](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBeHqlHM8DmvS8axgbrpvF9b)
and a range of activities from programming robots
to a Magic: the Gathering tournament.

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!