February Meetup / Go 1.8 Release Party!

Hi Gophers!

With the impending release of Go 1.8 and our fellow gophers partying on the streets of the world this week to celebrate, we'll be hosting a Go 1.8 Release Party on Wednesday 15th February at Skills Matter - CodeNode. We look forward to seeing you there!

Registration is open at https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/9139-go-1-8-release-party - please pre-register so that Skills Matter can plan for numbers on the night and we can start promptly!

Go 1.8, What's new? - Ernesto Jimenez

Ernesto takes us through the new and exciting features of Go 1.8!

Ernesto is the co-founder of slackline.io and has worked on different kinds of products, from webapps to APIs and games in both startups and big corporations. He is a Google Developer Expert and maintains testify, a popular Go testing package used in projects like Kubernetes, etcd, the AWS Go SDK and many others.

Static & Dynamic Plugins with Go 1.8 - Cameron Sparr (https://twitter.com/CameronSparr)

Many people think of Go plugins as external processes communicating over a protocol such as gRPC. In this talk I will go over a plugin system that allows both statically-built and dynamically-loaded plugins using the new Go "plugin" package available in version 1.8: https://tip.golang.org/pkg/plugin/.

Cameron is a software developer living in London and working for InfluxData, the company behind InfluxDB and the TICK stack. He maintains Telegraf, which is a plugin-based agent for collecting & outputting metrics.

HTTP2 Server Push with Go 1.8 - Laurie Clark-Michalek

Go 1.8 introduces a new http.Pusher interface to allow any Go web server to make use of HTTP2's server push feature. This talk will be an overview of the feature, how the Golang interface works, and a quick look at the impact it can have. We'll also look at changes that need to be made to existing middlewares to allow http.Pusher to be used, and talk a little bit about potential improvements that could be made in the ecosystem in this area.

Laurie is an Infrastructure Engineer at Qubit, writing Go with an eye to security, reliability and keeping people happy. He remembers the good old days, when it was still called os.Error, and people on HN used to get upset over the lack of generics.

As always we'll have loads of pizza and beer thanks to our wonderful sponsors without whom our meetup wouldn't happen! Thanks to Monzo and GrayMeta for our food and drinks, and Skills Matter for a wonderful venue.

GrayMeta (https://www.graymeta.com/careers/) - 100% Go backend delivering a highly scalable metadata extraction and search platform.

Monzo (https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/244898) - At Monzo we're building the best current account in the world, on a rock solid distributed platform built with Go. We're always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal!

Hope to see you there! <3