Return From Summer

Summer has flown by! It's hard to believe it's time to announce the August meetup already, yet...here we are!
Join us August 3 for the end-of-summer return of the Atlanta Go User Group!
We will be back at our Buckhead home at the Fullstory office for food and talk(s).
Stephen Johnston has a talk for us:
Golang, Apache Beam and Dataflow for Data Processing
Concept: Go is fast, but what happens when your data is larger than what a single process can handle within your available time window? Especially if you need to calculate metrics related to the data across those machines. That's where Golang, Apache Beam and Dataflow come in.
Apache Beam is an open source, unified model for defining both batch and streaming data-parallel processing pipelines. https://beam.apache.org/get-started/beam-overview/ Dataflow is a unified stream and batch data processing service on GCP that's serverless, fast, and cost-effective. https://cloud.google.com/dataflow
Conceptually: Language + Parallel Processing Framework + Orchestration Environment for Beam
Specifics: Golang + Beam + GCP Dataflow
This looks really interesting and like an empowering topic!
Can someone in the group volunteer to give us a 15 minute talk on anything Go related? Topics of interest might include...

• Anything related to testing
• An introduction to some package you like
• pros/cons demo of some Go idiom

We have the meetup to serve and support the Go community. It is great to come together and experience the sense of community, belonging and shared common purpose that brings us to the meetings! If you enjoy that, let me encourage you to take the next step and serve the community!