Go Monthly Meetup - Talk Night - Go 1.10 Release Party / Twirp overview

Let's celebrate the release of Go 1.10 by taking a walk through the current state of Go and the latest set of changes to the language and then dive into one of the newer entries to the growing catalogs of RPC frameworks written in Go.

Agenda

6:00 - Networking with food & non-alcoholic beverages
6:30 - Announcements
6:45 - Talks

Talk 1 - What's new in Go 1.10

An overview of the latest major release of the Go programming language.

Speaker: Rodolfo Carvalho

Rodolfo is a software developer at AWS Elemental MediaStore (https://aws.amazon.com/mediastore/) - an AWS storage service optimized for media and live streaming.
Before moving to Portland, Rodolfo worked on Red Hat's OpenShift (https://github.com/openshift/origin), the open source enterprise-ready Kubernetes distribution, written in Go.
Back in Brno, Czechia, he organized weekly coding dojos (https://www.facebook.com/CodingDojoBrno/events), sharing communication, programming, testing and designing skills in Go and other languages.

Talk 2 - Introduction to Twirp (https://twitchtv.github.io/twirp/docs/intro.html)

Speaker: Logan Davis

Logan is a developer. He’s shipped a lot of code and some of it was pretty good. He believes in fostering an inclusive culture focused on solving problems in a healthy way. Logan currently is a software engineer at InComm Digital Solutions. He's willing to give your mixtape a shot.

8:00 - End