Gopherfest SV – w/Rob Pike, Travis Reeder, Blake Mizerany, Parse, and Dropbox

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Agenda

6:00 Networking | Food | Drink

7:00 Sharing of Tips and Tools

7:10 Speakers

• Introduction: Travis Reeder, Iron.io
• Talk 1: Naitik Shah, Parse
• Talk 2: Zviad Metreveli, Dropbox
• Tech Talk: Blake Mizerany
• Talk 3: Rob Pike, Google

8:30 End

Talk 1: Naitik Shah on Using Channels in Go

Naitik Shah will provide an in depth analysis on two of Facebook's open source libraries – httpdown and rpool.

https://github.com/facebookgo/httpdown

https://github.com/facebookgo/rpool

In doing so, he'll address the following topics:

• What we did before channels
• Why it was difficult
• Why were channels difficult to use
• What the future holds (lockless approaches et al)

About the Speaker

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Naitik Shah has worked on SDKs and on Open Graph as part of the Platform team at Facebook for over 4 years before joining the Parse team. Prior to that, he was building products for developers at Yahoo. From yielding in the next generation JavaScript to switching with Duff's device, he likes coding all the things. (github/daaku (https://github.com/daaku))

Talk 2: Zviad Metreveli on Using Go at Dropbox

Zviad Metreveli from Dropbox will give an in-depth look at why they chose Go vs some of the alternatives. He'll address the path from building first service to GoLang becoming dominant choice for all of our core Infrastructure services.

He'll also dig into their learnings on writing and testing Go code, running Go services in production, and debugging issues in live systems. Finally, he'll discuss the future of Go at Dropbox and how it fits in with Python and some lower-lower components written in C++/Rust.

About the Speaker

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Zviad Metreveli is a software engineer at Dropbox with a Masters in Engineering in Computer Science from MIT.

Tech Talk: Blake Mizerany – Show & Tell

Blake Mizerany will demonstrate some new technology he's been working on based on Golang.

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About the Speaker

Blake Mizerany is a Golang hacker and entrepreneur and has worked with Heroku and CoreOS.

Talk 3: Rob Pike on Go

About the Speaker

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Rob Pike is a software pioneer. His influence is everywhere: Unix, Plan 9 OS, The Unix Programming Environment book, UTF-8, and the Go programming language. (@rob_pike)

*** Special Give-Away ***

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As part of the release of The Go Programming Language book, by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan, we will have 20 signed copies for give-away at the event. Additional copies will be available for purchase at 37% off the list price.

If you prefer eBook formats or cannot make it to the meet-up, you can pre-order the book or eBook from http://informit.com/golang . (Save 37% off with code GOPRGRM37.)

Alan Donovan is a Staff Engineer in Google's infrastructure division, specializing in software development tools. Since 2012, he has been working on the Go team, designing libraries and tools for static analysis.

Brian Kernighan was in the Computing Science Research center at Bell Labs until 2000, where he worked on languages and tools for Unix. He is the co-author of several books, including The C Programming Language and The Practice of Programming.

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