[online] October Golang meetup

Hello Gophers,
colorful autumn is here!

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

We're meeting every 2nd Wednesday of the month, online until end of 2020 and maybe longer.

If you'd like to suggest topics for the fishbowl session or if you have more ideas - talk to us at the Gophers slack: https://gophersinvite.herokuapp.com/ in the #berlin channel,

Follow us on twitter: https://twitter.com/gdgberlingolang
And on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-0_NXetb8X5LBnpAwIYKvw

📅 AGENDA 📅

19:00-19:25 Networking over your home beverage+drinks
(we're using Slido)

19:25-19:30 Welcome words

19:30-20:00 Beyond Gosec: Detect complex code patterns using semantic grep / Isaac Evans

We’ll discuss a static analysis tool we’re developing called Semgrep (https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep#semgrep) and compare it to tools like gosec. Semgrep is a tool for writing security and correctness queries on source code (for Go, Python, Java, C, and JS) with a simple grep-like interface.

20:00-20:30 Announcements, HR lost & found, break

20:30-21:00 Writing testable Go code / Alex Pliutau

This talk will give you some good practices for writing testable Go code.

21:00-end Networking

This meetup is being recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel

🎤 ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS 🎤

Isaac Evans - CEO at r2c (@0xine)
Isaac Evans is the leader of r2c, a small startup working on giving security tools directly to developers. Previously, he conducted research into binary exploitation bypasses for techniques like control-flow integrity and novel hardware defenses on new architectures like RISC-V as a researcher at the US Defense Department under a SFS program and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Isaac received his BS/MS degrees in EECS from MIT. Other interests include next-generation programming languages, secure-by-design frameworks, software-defined radio, and the intersection of cryptography and public policy.

Alex Pliutau - Engineering Lead at 12traits (@pliutau)
Gopher with a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/packagemain

🤓ABOUT SumUp - Our Virtual Host 🤓

SumUp is a multi-product fintech company that enables small businesses across the world to accept card payments. They build their own payment solution end-to-end so that they can always offer the best value and service to their merchants.

They use Go, Ruby, Node.js, Erlang & Elixir to implement software services that power the SumUp platform. In addition to their original hardware, mobile and web apps they have gone on to develop a suite of APIs and SDKs to integrate SumUp payment solution into other apps and services.

Cheers,
The Organizers™