Go v1.8 Release Party – Thurs, Feb 16th

Agenda

6:30p Networking | Food | Drink

7:05p Speakers

• Talk 1: Go and IronFunctions, Travis Reeder, Iron.io

• Talk 2: Writing Kubernetes Controllers (using Go!), Eric Chiang, CoreOS

• Talk 3: Go Context Package, Francesc Campoy, Google

• Talk 4: Go v1.8 Release, Chris Broadfoot, Google

8:45 End

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Talk 1: Go and IronFunctions

Travis Reeder will provide a Go-centric talk on IronFunctions, a serverless platform from Iron.io, and discuss how Go plays a critical part in providing high scalability, high currency, and fault tolerance.

About the Speaker

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Travis Reeder is co-founder and CTO of Iron.io, heading up the architecture and engineering efforts. He is a systems architect and hands-on technologist with 18 years of experience developing high-traffic web applications including 8+ years building high-scale distributed services on cloud infrastructures. (@treeder (https://twitter.com/treeder))

Talk 2: Writing Kubernetes Controllers (using Go!)

An intro to one of the largest Go projects, Kubernetes, a container orchestration platform. Learn how to use the Go tools provided by the Kubernetes project to customize behavior and build clients that leverage its primitives.

About the Speaker

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Eric Chiang is an engineer at CoreOS, where he specializes on identity and authorization in distributed systems. He maintains several open source Go projects and packages, including dex, a login service, and pup, a command line HTML parser.

Talk 3: Go Context Package

A new context package was added in Go 1.7 that can be used for holding request-scoped information such as timeouts, cancellation state, and credentials. An individual context is immutable (like an individual string or int): it is only possible to derive a new, updated context and pass that context explicitly further down the call stack or (less commonly) back up to the caller. The context is now carried through APIs such as database/sql and net/http, mainly so that those can stop processing a request when the caller is no longer interested in the result.

Francesc Campoy will dive into this package and provide insights on its use and applicability in Go applications and functions.

About the Speaker

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Francesc Campoy is a Developer Advocate at Google. He is an international software engineer with an extensive experience in Go and C++ developing. He is specially interested on software engineering issues, software architecture and design. (@francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc))

Talk 4: Go v1.8

Chris Broadfoot will provide an in-depth look at all the new additions to Go in version 1.8.

About the Speaker

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Chris Broadfoot is a Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google. His primary focus is on working with developers in their use of the Go programming language and Google Cloud Platform.

Additional Sponsors

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