Golang Melbourne

Hi Gophers! Join us this April for an evening of Go talks exploring real-world systems, from building a BitTorrent client to running Go on legacy architectures. We are looking forward to connecting with you.

Agenda

6:00pm — Food & Networking
6:30pm — Intro + Go News
6:45pm — Talks
8:00pm — Wrap up then stick around for kick ons

🎤 Tom Clancy
Building a BitTorrent client in Go
BitTorrent, first released in 2001 is a peer-to-peer protocol for file sharing. Its decentralised approach, where pieces of files are exchanged with peers (rather than a central server), is a natural fit for Go's concurrency model. This talk looks at the inner workings of the protocol, how to build your own client, and concurrency patterns for performance.

Bio: Tom is a Software Engineer at Megaport, working on their edge networking functions platform (written in Go).

🎤 Sam Hobson
Compiling Go for Ancient Architectures
Some customers approached Knocknoc asking if we can get our Go agent to run on their old HPUX PA-RISC and Solaris SPARC machines, both unsupported by Go, and we took on the challenge of finding a way to make it work

Bio: "I'm Sam, I'm a software engineer of a couple of years working at a startup called Knocknoc on Just-in-time network layer access control software. Please come talk to me about cool stuff you're working on!"