Golang September @ The Commons

Hello Gophers!

Join us for our September Meetup, proudly hosted and sponsored by NewyTechPeople, where tech enthusiasts, great talks, and networking come together for an inspiring evening!

Agenda

6.00pm Food

6.30pm Intro and Go News

Talks

LangChainGo Under Microscope
Nanik Tolaram
Building AI applications in Go is becoming increasingly accessible thanks to the growing number of open-source frameworks. In this talk, we’ll explore LangChainGo, one of the most popular frameworks for developing AI applications. We’ll demonstrate how to write an application that can call internal functions to retrieve information based on user questions. Additionally, we’ll dive into the framework itself to understand how it works and how it interacts with LLM providers like Google Gemini.
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Nanik is a prolific software engineer and active open-source contributor with deep expertise across multiple programming languages, including C, C++, Java, Go, and Python. He has extensive experience across the financial sector, spanning traditional banking to cryptocurrency. Nanik is also the author of two Golang books: “Becoming a Full Stack Go Developer” and “Software Development with Go: Cloud-Native Programming using Golang with Linux and Docker”.

APIs Made Easy with Protobuf & ConnectRPC
Yann Vigara
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvigara/
Tired of wrestling with OpenAPI or GraphQL to get your APIs working across backend and frontend? In this talk, I’ll show how Protobuf and ConnectRPC make it simple to define your API once and generate everything you need — typed clients for Go services, microservices, and even your React frontend. You’ll see a live demo where we build an end-to-end service in minutes, with the safety and flexibility of the best of all worlds.

A few GOtchas
Hugh Palmer
A short summary of some interesting take aways from "100 Go Mistakes And How To Avoid Them" by Teiva Harsanyi

Hugh Palmer is a self-taught software developer with a background in audio engineering. After years of working with sound, he discovered a passion for Go and backend engineering.

📢 Got a Go thing up your sleeve?

Whether it’s a deep dive (20–30 minutes) or a lightning talk (5–10 minutes), we would love to hear about it!

**👉 Reach out to Katie at katie@newytechpeople.com.au

🙏 Thank you to NewyTechPeople for providing the venue at The Commons QV and for supporting the event with refreshments.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Katie and Leah