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==== π Agendaπ =====
6:30 - 7:00pm: Arrival, Food & Refreshments
7:00pm: Talks Start
π£β‘Grant - Snapshot testing with cupaloy
Snapshots are like static testdata, except changes are merely reviewed.
π£ Salman Shah - Racing Go
I want to talk about Data Races in Go. Uber bad come out with a really nice paper a few years ago, so discuss that along with a few code examples.
β Break π₯
π£ Praveen Dhinwa - Go Design Patterns for Real-World Applications
The talk would focus on common design patterns of Go used in production and the philosophies behind them.
The aim is to cover the following design patterns.
- Composition over inheritance
- Worker Pool
- Fan In- Fan out pattern
- Singleton pattern
- Error Handling patterns
- Repository pattern
- Factory Pattern
- Observer Pattern:
The aim of the talk is to give the explanation of the pattern and real-world examples use cases for that.
~8:30 - 9:00pm: Closing and Head to the Pub
==== π‘ Priority Queue π‘ =====
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If they join the waitlist and there is a reserved spot open they will be bumped into going!
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https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-demographics
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/#gender-and-development
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==== π Prizes! π =====
JetBrains Raffle! - We have 3 free JetBrains Product licenses to giveaway to some of our lucky attendees.
Ardan Labs Ultimate Go Course! - A full comprehensive Go Course. Featuring Bill Kennedy!
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