GoSF - Go After 2 Yrs in Production | Profiling Go Code

Agenda

7:00 Networking | Food | Drink
7:30 Intros | Sharing of Tips and Tools
7:45 Speakers
• Talk 1: Go After 2 Years in Production (Travis Reeder)
• Tech Talk: Navigating Go Code On GitHub
• Talk 2: Profiling Go Programs (John Graham-Cumming)
9:00 End

Talk 1: Travis Reeder, Go After 2 Years in Production

Travis Reeder will provide some in-depth details on why Go turned out to be the right choice for the Iron.io backend. He'll talk about issues related to performance, memory usage, concurrency, reliability, and deployment ease as well as go through key areas in the architecture where Go made the difference.

About the Speaker

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Travis Reeder is co-founder and CTO of Iron.io, heading up the architecture and engineering efforts. He is a systems architect and hands-on technologist with 15 years of experience developing high-traffic web applications including 5+ years building elastic services on virtual infrastructures. (@treeder)

Talk 2: John Graham-Cumming, Profiling Go Programs

John Graham-Cumming from CloudFlare will be in town and will give an in-depth talk on profiling Go programs.

About the Speaker

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John Graham-Cumming is a programmer, maker, blogger, and author of a travel book for scientists called The Geek Atlas. He works at CloudFlare and has a general goal of 'patching the Internet'. Prior to CloudFlare, he worked at a number of startups and created the award-winning POPFile email machine learning software.

Tech Talk: Using Sourcegraph to Navigate Go Code On GitHub

Quinn Slack from Sourcegraph will show off a tool for navigating GitHub to everywhere a Go function is used or a Go interface is implemented, and how you can use it to make your own open source projects better.

About the Speaker

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Quinn Slack is co-founder of Sourcegraph, an open source code search and community site. Prior to Sourcegraph, he worked at Palantir and was first engineer at Bleacher Report. He has contributed to many open source projects including go-github, cURL, tcpcrypt, Avro, and TLS-SRP implementations in Chrome and Firefox.

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Location Notes: When you arrive at Cisco SF head on up to the 4th floor lobby. Sign in on the guest list, grab a name tag, and head towards Zeitgeist (cafeteria). They'll have some local SF beers and Delfina pizza on hand.

If you're driving - there is metered and non-metered street parking, in addition to a paid lot at 450 South Street. The 450 South lot also offers free bike parking on the ground floor. Keep a lookout for the green, polka-dotted balloons - they'll mark entrances to both the lot and the building.

About the Host/Sponsor

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Cisco SF is the Cisco start-up experience and is rethinking networking from the ground up from a new headquarters in Mission Bay. Cisco SF has assembled a team of product builders and technologists focused on inventing the future of networking.

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