Golang Birmingham

Golang Birmingham Meetup!
📅 Date: Tuesday, 25 March 2026
📍 Location: Bluetel Solutions, 4 Temple Row, Birmingham B2 5HG

We are excited to announce our next Golang Birmingham meetup for Go developers and enthusiasts across Birmingham and the surrounding region. Whether you are experienced with Go, just getting started, or simply curious about the language, this event is an opportunity to learn, connect, and engage with the community.
Join us for an evening of technical talks, practical insights, and networking with fellow developers.

## About our speakers and their talks:

Ryan Lee
Principal Software Engineer & Community Manager
Bluetel

Title: "Foiling Json's Schemes"
Description: " I don't know who this Je'són person is; but I see them in my sleep, out of the corners of my eyes in the dark, following me late at night. It whispers to me, 'build a json schema faker... it will be easy'. Come and watch me pushed to the edge of my sanity as we find how how true that statement exactly is and what this Je'sòn person has in store for us!"

Simon Emms
Staff Solutions Architect
Temporal

Title: Failure Happens. Your Code Shouldn't Care.
Description: As software engineers, we know our code will be retried, restarted and run more than once. Durable Execution makes this manageable by letting us write reliable workflows that recover automatically from crashes and restarts without defensive plumbing. I’ll explain how it works and prove it with a live demo that treats failure as just another code path.

## Agenda

17:30 - 17:45 : Registration, networking and settling in
17:45 - 17:55 : Welcome and community updates
17:55 - 18:00 : Speaker introduction - Ryan Lee
18:00 - 18:35 : Ryan Lee - "Foiling Json's Schemes"
18:35 - 18:45 : Audience Q&A (Ryan Lee)
18:45 - 18:55 : Break and networking
18:55 - 19:00 : Speaker introduction - Simon Emms
19:00 - 19:35 : Simon Emms - Failure Happens. Your Code Shouldn't Care.
19:35 - 19:45 : Audience Q&A (Simon Emms)
19:45 - 20:00 : Closing remarks and community announcements