September Gophers @ Dojo!

Hello London Gophers! 👋

And just like that, Autumn! Don't be sad, it'll almost definitely be Summer again next year - that and we've got September Gophers @ Dojo to look forward to!

==== 📓 Agenda📓 =====

6:30: Arrival, Food & Refreshments
6:55pm: Talks Start

7:00pm: 🗣️ Andrea Maderna: Go @ Dojo

A high level look at what Dojo does, plus "when", "how" and "why" we chose Go, for which systems we use it, and our experience with it so far.

7:15pm: 🗣️ Sayani Bhattacharjee: Go 1.25: Solving Concurrency Testing and JSON Performance Pain Points

This talk provides an in-depth technical overview of these impactful new packages. First, we will examine the new experimental encoding/json/v2, analyzing the significant performance improvements from its redesigned, allocation-optimized decoder and the flexible new API that addresses long-standing limitations of its predecessor.

Next, the talk will address the challenge of creating reliable tests for concurrent code by mastering the testing/synctest package. We will demonstrate how its isolated "bubble" environment with a virtualized clock provides a new paradigm for writing fast, simple, and deterministic tests for complex concurrent logic, effectively eliminating a common source of test flakiness.

7:30: Break

7:50: 🗣️ Mike Bruce: Return to Sender: Why Your Go Packages Keep Getting Lost

By default, Go auto-aliases your imports i.e you reference only the last part of the import path /internal/service/payment -> payment package and you can end up with a lot of packages having the same label. This talk goes through some of the iterations I went through, the tradeoffs, some references I looked at (stdlib + kubernetes) and where I'm currently at, I think I've got something pretty good with some extra hidden benefits.

8:25pm: Socialising
9:00pm: Pub!

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==== 💡 Priority Queue 💡 =====

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

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==== 🎉 Prizes & Discounts! 🎉 =====

JetBrains Raffle! - We have 3 free JetBrains Product licenses to giveaway to some of our lucky attendees!

Ardan Labs Raffle! - We're giving away one course license for Ardan Labs' Ultimate Go Bundle!

Manning Publications Raffle! - We're giving away 4 free Go e-books!

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