What's happening?

To celebrate the release of Go 1.8 we're to organising a world wide release party on February the 16th, 2017.

Hang on, did you say Go 1.8 ships on the 16th of February?

Nope! Go 1.8 is in good shape to ship in early February, but no firm release date has been published; it might be as early as the 1st of Feb, or it might not.

Agenda

• 19:00 - 19:15 Arriving (you and the pizza)

• 19:15 - 19:35 Talk: Go 1.8 Overview

• 19:45 - 20:30 Talk: Chat for scale

• 20:45 - 00:00 After party

Talks

Go 1.8 Overview
With 1.8 just around the corner, let's go through what happened in the last release and what we can expect in 2017.

Mate Gulyas - https://enbrite.ly
Twitter: @gulyasm (https://twitter.com/gulyasm)

Chat for scale
Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv) is a video streaming platform with users from all continents. It's platform is used by millions of people, 7/24, so speed and reliability is extremely important. The chat backend was rewritten to serve the challenges this scale presents in Go. The talk describe how they started, what the problems they faced and how they solved it.

Gergely Radics - Ustream, an IBM Company (http://www.ustream.tv)
Twitter: @gerifield (https://twitter.com/gerifield)

As a good release party, after the talks we go to the pub near the venue and wildly guess about Go in 2017 and discuss the new release.

If you have any question about Go, interested in the ecosystem, don't hesitate to come. We are always happy to see new people around!