[GoSF] Gopherfest - Go Stories, Performance Optimizations, and Error Handling

Agenda

6:00 Networking | Food | Drink
6:30 Speakers
• Error Handling in Go (Maya Li, Calm)
• Networking Break (15min)
• Go Stories (tales from the group)
• Performance Optimization with Go | How Dgraph Optimized Ristretto (Manish Jain, Dgraph)

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About the Sponsor
Calm's mission is to make the world happier and healthier. We have the #1 Health and Fitness App worldwide, with over 50 million downloads. Our products provide life-changing programs for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation.

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Talk 1: Error Handling in Go
Maya Li from Calm will discuss how Calm handles errors across their extensive suite of Go microservices in a way that is predictable, carries the proper degree of context to the right place, and makes debugging and alerting a breeze.

About the Speaker
Maya Li is a Principal Software Engineer at Calm, and she's passionate about mindfulness and health. She's also super passionate about building scalable, fault-tolerant software. She has advanced degrees in Neurobiology and Biomedical Health Informatics and is an avid bicyclist.

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Go Stories - Tales from the Group
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Go language, we'll have members tell their stories of how they got involved with Go, what their most surprising revelations have been, and what they've been able to accomplish with it.

Please think about your experiences with Go and craft them into a 2-5 minutes story that you can share with others.

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Talk 2: Performance Optimization with Go | How Dgraph Optimized Ristretto

About the Speaker
Manish Jain is the founder of Dgraph Labs and the author of Dgraph, Badger and Ristretto. He got thrust into distributed systems right out of college, working in Web Search and Knowledge Graph infrastructure group at Google for 6.5 years. He led various projects to consolidate and serve all structured data including the knowledge graph right behind web search. He has given multiple talks at various Go meetups and conferences, most notably in Gophercon Shanghai where he presented in front of a thousand developers.