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Hello London Gophers! πŸ‘‹

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==== πŸ““ AgendaπŸ““ =====

6:30 - 7:00pm: Arrival, Food & Refreshments

7:00pm: Talks Start

πŸ—£βš‘Grant - Snapshot testing with cupaloy

Snapshots are like static testdata, except changes are merely reviewed.

πŸ—£ 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 πŸ₯

πŸ—£ 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

==== πŸ’‘ Priority Queue πŸ’‘ =====

We now reserve 20% of the attendee spots at our events for those who are underrepresented in tech.

If they join the waitlist and there is a reserved spot open they will be bumped into going!

These spots are reversed until the last Sunday before the event.

How do we define underrepresented? We use public surveys done by the tech community such as the ones linked below.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-demographics

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/#gender-and-development

==== πŸ“’ Become a Speaker! πŸ“’ =====

Have something to say? We want to listen! We are always looking for new speakers who want to share their adventures with Go and have mentors who can help.

You can sign up to be a speaker here: https://gophers.london/apply

==== πŸŽ‰ Prizes! πŸŽ‰ =====

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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==== 🧳Looking For a New Adventure? 🧳 =====

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