Women Who Go at Buoyant: Using GraphQL; Go and Protobuf

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Come to hang out with other WWG, eat some food and study up on some Go!

Agenda

6:00 Networking | Food | Drinks
6:30 Speakers

Talk 1: Using GraphQL to write awesome golang APIs (Risha Mars)

When writing web applications, API management can be one of the most time-consuming things. GraphQL allows you to build APIs that can easily assemble large amounts of related data, and provide a lot of query flexibility.

Risha will talk about how to choose a GraphQL library from the many options out there, and how to implement a simple API with GraphQL.
Risha will show how to use it to stitch related data together to provide a flexible and user-friendly API.

About Risha:
Risha is a Software Engineer at Buoyant and works on the Linkerd 2 control plane, writing APIs, CLIs and dashboards using Go and Javascript. Previously, Risha worked on the Ads team at Twitter, on internal ads tooling and dashboards.

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Talk 2: Go and the protobuf: How Protocol Buffers bridge the language gap between Go and Rust in Linkerd (Carol Scott)

In this talk, we’ll go over the history, benefits, and drawbacks of Protocol Buffers and why we use protobuf definitions in Buoyant’s open-source service mesh, Linkerd.

We’ll look at some code, talk about best practices and conclude with a demo of an application using Protocol Buffers in action.

About Carol:
Carol is a Software Engineer at Buoyant. Previously, she built the infrastructure for and maintained OutagePlanner, a web application used by industrial plants, labor unions, and contractors to share labor needs. When she’s not writing code she teaches for Girl Develop It SF and volunteers for SF City Guides (a program of the SF Public Library).

About our sponsor

Buoyant is the commercial support organization behind Linkerd, the CNCF service mesh that gives you observability, reliability, and security for your microservices. At Buoyant we are a team committed to solving real problems for real users in a supportive, friendly environment. Come join us, we're hiring!

Buoyant is covering the cost of:

• Food & drinks
• Space

Read more about Buoyant https://buoyant.io/about-us/

Check-in

You need to check in with security in the lobby and let them know you are there for the Women Who Go meetup at Buoyant.
If security is not in the lobby, you can call or text Stephanie Descalso (650) 575-7994.