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GoSF Meetup - Brad Fitzpatrick on rewriting dl.google | Rob Miller on Heka (9/5)

Sep 5, 2013 · 7:00 PM
New Relic

Agenda

7:00 Networking | Food | Drink
7:30 Every Day Carry - tools, tips, best practices
7:45 Speakers
• Talk 1: Brad Fitzpatrick, Google Go Team
• Talk 2: Rob Miller, Mozilla Heka Team
9:00 End

Talk 1: Brad Fitzpatrick, Experiences Rewriting Code in Go

Brad Fitzpatrick will provide an intimate insider view of converting critical code components at Google into Go. In particular, he'll talk about his experiences rewriting dl.google.com to Go. The new dl.google.com software contains fewer lines of code, uses less memory and is more reliable.

He'll talk about the insights he gained using Go in real-world high-traffic situations, where the biggest gains are (tangible and intangible), and will even touch on discovering a few deficiencies in Go. You won't want to miss what it's like to be on a "gopher team" solving problems and working on high visibility projects.

About the Speaker

Brad Fitzpatrick is on the Go Team at Google. He's been at Google since 2007 working on Social Graph API, PubSubHubbub, WebFinger, Android, and more. Prior to that he founded Danga, created LiveJournal, authored memcached and did a load of stuff at SixApart (OpenID, djabberd, ....) Why Go: "It's refreshingly simple and productive. Makes me giddy about writing code again after years of hating the major trade-offs between different languages." (http://bradfitz.com/)

Talk 2: Rob Miller, Mozilla Heka Team

This is a survey level view of the design and implementation of Heka, a data collection and processing tool written in Go by members of Mozilla's Services team. It contains a brief description of what Heka is (and isn't), an overview of the architecture, and a discussion of the authors' experience with Go as the development platform.

About the Speaker

Rob Miller is the project lead for Heka at Mozilla. He's recently started writing data processing software in Go after many years of doing mostly web programming in Python. In previous lives, he's put his efforts towards such projects as bringing an open source ethos to civic infrastructure, performing radical social experiments in the Black Rock desert, and hosting Chinese language websites for the Dalai Lama. (@n0nsequitarian)

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Mikhail P

Was there a video of this talk posted? Was trying to link a friend to it..

0 · September 30, 2013
A former member

This was totally awesome! I didn't get to chat with everyone I wanted to, but thank you all again for your contributions to https://github.com/crowdmob/goamz

Look forward to seeing you more!

0 · September 6, 2013
Rob M.

I had a great time talking about Heka for all of you last night. Thanks for having me!

Slides for the talk are available at https://people.mozilla.com/~rmiller/heka-golangsf[masked] for anyone interested.

0 · September 6, 2013
John Markos O.

I really enjoyed last night's Go meetup, and it was great to see two examples of Go being used to create fast, readable, maintainable systems. Thanks to both speakers for their excellent presentations, and thank you to New Relic for hosting!

0 · September 6, 2013
Amol

Good.

0 · September 6, 2013
Dan P.

Any chance this will be webcast?

0 · September 4, 2013
- Sudarshan R.
  
  I also ask if this meetup would be webcast
  
  0 · September 4, 2013
- Kev B.
  
  Any chance?
  
  0 · September 5, 2013
Joe Z.

Duuuude im in the area, def going!

0 · September 5, 2013
Fabrizio

Any advice on where to park ?

0 · September 5, 2013
- Bryan W.
  
  there is a Giants game - so parking will be a nightmare. Best to park far away and take caltrain then walk.
  
  0 · September 5, 2013
David F.

So bummed the meetup was moved to the 5th - I'm already committed to attend the SiliconValleyVR meetup.

Hopefully I'll make the next one.

0 · September 3, 2013
Ken F.

Location of GoSF meetup on 9/5 will be New Relic, 188 Spear St, SF.

Note there is a Giants game so plan your route to the meeting some thought.

0 · September 3, 2013
Ken F.

The meetup is this Thursday, Sept 5th. Working on the venue. We had to move it up from 9/11 because of a schedule conflict with the speaker but that knocked out our venue. Will have details posted Tuesday.

0 · September 2, 2013
Antony

Time to inform the venue guys

0 · September 2, 2013
Thomas

So guys this is becoming really messy... When and where is the meetup?

0 · September 2, 2013
Bill K.

Will this be broadcast?

0 · August 30, 2013
Tobias W.

That sorta sucks... September 11th I'm out of the country. :(

0 · August 20, 2013
- Greg L.
  
  Same here. #sad-face
  
  0 · August 20, 2013
Ken F.

Summer vacations have created some blocks in speaker schedules so we're postponing until Sept. Apologies but we'll make it a doubly great program.

0 · August 19, 2013
A former member

Look forward to meeting others in the Go community

0 · August 2, 2013
Dmitri S.

Can't wait for a golang event in SF!

1 · August 1, 2013