[HYBRID] October Golang meetup

Zoom link: [https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88121075735?pwd=aUJ2d1lySzBuNk5NOW9TYjduT0tsUT09](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88121075735?pwd%3DaUJ2d1lySzBuNk5NOW9TYjduT0tsUT09&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw2CJ2a9a0iP0hyua4DIIfej)

Hello Gophers,

spooky times are upon us: Halloween is around the corner. So let's gather around the (metaphorical!) campfire and listen to the stories our speakers tell from a world beyond our imagination, where daemons and zombie-processes reign. The realm of IT...

If you'd like to give a talk - submit your proposals here: http://goo.gl/forms/54YvJT223F

If you have more ideas - talk to us at the Gophers slack: https://gophersinvite.herokuapp.com/ in the #berlin channel, and follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/gdgberlingolang

AGENDA

19:00-19:25 Networking over drinks and pizza
19:25-19:30 Welcome words
19:30-20:00 Taking Go to Church (No, not that kind!) / Geoffrey Teale

A gentle introduction to the implementation of Church Numerals and Untyped Lambda Calculus in Go.

20:00-20:30 Announcements, HR lost & found, break
20:30-21:00 Pumping Bytes - io.Reader and io.Writer in Go / Tim Scheuermann

Discussing the power of the `io.Reader` and `io.Writer` interfaces and all the fun you can have with them.

21:00-end Networking

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

Geoffrey (@tealeg) Teale is the Head of Developer Experience at Upvest GmbH. He's been a contributor to Free and Open Source software since the mid 1990s, and a Go programmer since the day of its public announcement (November 10th, 2009).

Tim (@plusmid) Scheuermann is a Software Design Engineer at Mattermost and Co-host of the Berlin Go Meetup. Tim started his Go journey with version 1.0, when it was required for a uni course. His most productive days are when he can replace 1000 LoC with just a few.

🤓 ABOUT our host Upvest 🤓
At Upvest we're on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money.

Today, investing is still a privilege for the few. We make it more accessible. Our Investment API empowers any business to offer amazing investment experiences. Hundreds of millions of people can now create wealth and vote with their money for a better future.

Our customers choose Upvest because we enable them to bring their investment products to the market incredibly quickly. That's possible because we empower our engineers to own every decision and outcome around their domains, and because we have built a modern, event-driven, micro-service backend entirely in Go, from the ground up.

If you'd like to know more about the way we work in Upvest Engineering, see "The way we build our API platform" (https://engineering.upvest.co/posts/culture/way-we-build-our-platform/). If you'd like to know more about Upvest in general see our website at: https://upvest.co

Cheers,
The Organizers™