Nigerian Gophers May Meetup

Event Details

Join the community for a deep dive into coding with Go, Whether you’re an experienced engineer or just starting your journey with Go, this session will equip you with practical knowledge to build scalable, high-performance systems with Go.

Event schedule

9:00am: Introductions

9:30am-10:00am: First talk by Aleem Isiaka

Topic: Dependency Injection In Go: an intro to Uber FX and its usage patterns

Description: Go package system is well designed, sourcing the packages, managing them through go.mod and go.sum, excellently managing runtime sourcing by including the packages at build time. But, working on a large project requires multiple packages depending on each other, and can create a mental stress trying to figure out which package is the root package. Uber FX solves this easily and excellently.
In this talk, I will:
- Introduce the dependency injection problem
- Introduce projects that has proved to solve it.
- Highlights why UberFX is a great solutions
- Introduce UberFX APIs
- Demonstrates common and advanced usage patterns.
- When not to use UberFX

10:00am-10:30am: Second talk by Daniel Bejamin

Topic: Which Container Ate My Bandwidth? An eBPF Answer

Description: It’s a practical story about debugging a real infrastructure problem, building a tool to solve it, and learning where the abstractions around containers and networking start to leak.
In this talk, I’ll walk through how I built a tool that attaches directly to container cgroups using cgroup_skb eBPF programs and tracks exactly how many bytes each container sends and receives, including where the traffic is going.

You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of:
- when eBPF is actually useful
- when existing tooling is enough
- and how to start building kernel-level observability tools in Go if you decide to go deeper.
No prior eBPF experience required.

10:30 am -11:00 am: GopherCon Africa 2026 – The Third GopherCon in Africa (YAY!)
Speakers: GopherCon Africa Organizers
Get behind-the-scenes insights into the preparations and arrangements for the upcoming conference, and bring your questions directly to the organizers. Link to the website: https://www.gophers.africa

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!
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