Workshop: Google Go on App Engine

Go is a relatively new language from Google with interesting concurrency mechanisms. It recently got Google App Engine support, which is what we intend to explore in a full-day guided workshop event.

Go notable users are Googlers and the CloudFoundry team. The guys over at Iron.io are pretty happy with it too: http://blog.iron.io/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go.html

Go's primary objective is execution efficiency and control without developer's productivity sacrifice. Being a compiled language, it provides static typing, memory safety, garbage collection, and intuitive concurrency. Albeit young, it's performance is on par with JVM based programs: https://days2011.scala-lang.org/sites/days2011/files/ws3-1-Hundt.pdf

In prepartion for the event, please, allocate sufficient time to get familiar with Go syntax, workflow, and basics of Google PaaS.
http://golang.org/
https://developers.google.com/appengine/