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| title: Go and the Google Cloud Platform |
| date: 2013-06-12 |
| by: |
| - Andrew Gerrand |
| summary: Two talks about using Go with the Google Cloud Platform, from Google I/O 2013. |
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| |
| ## Introduction |
| |
| In 2011 we announced the [Go runtime for App Engine](https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview). |
| Since then, we have continued to improve the Go App Engine experience, |
| and generally improved Go support for the Google Cloud Platform. |
| For instance, the [google-api-go-client](http://code.google.com/p/google-api-go-client) provides |
| a Go interface to a range of Google's public APis, |
| including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, |
| Drive, and many more. |
| |
| Learn more by watching these talks from Google I/O this year: |
| |
| ## High Performance Apps with Go on App Engine |
| |
| _The Go runtime for App Engine is a high performance engine for_ |
| _running web applications. It produces fast responses,_ |
| _starts instances in a fraction of a second, makes the most use_ |
| _of instance hours, and allows your app to do serious processing_ |
| _at full machine speed._ |
| _Come along to hear how to fully exploit the power of Go on App_ |
| _Engine and make your web applications the best they can be._ |
| |
| {{video "https://www.youtube.com/embed/fc25ihfXhbg"}} |
| |
| ## All the Ships in the World |
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| Visualizing Data with Google Cloud and Maps |
| |
| _Tens of thousands of ships report their position at least once_ |
| _every 5 minutes, 24 hours a day._ |
| _Visualizing that quantity of data and serving it out to large_ |
| _numbers of people takes lots of power both in the browser and on the server._ |
| _This session will explore the use of Maps,_ |
| _App Engine, Go, Compute Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Storage,_ |
| _and WebGL to do massive data visualization._ |
| |
| {{video "https://www.youtube.com/embed/MT7cd4M9vzs"}} |
