Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he’s learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it.

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Featuring:

• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years

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Mat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That’s right, this is Go Time’s finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won’t regret it!

We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉

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Featuring:

• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe
• Subscribe to Fallthrough!
• Subscribe to The Changelog!

• Neurodiverse gophers (Go Time #281)
• Gophers Say What!? (Go Time #200)
• Who owns our code? (Go Time #252)
• Who owns our code? Part 2 (Go Time #263)
• Mat’s GopherCon EU diary with (Go Time #250)
• Maintenance podcast episodes
• 2053: A Go Odyssey with Ron Evans (Go Time #235)
• The Wu-Tang way with Ron Evans (Changelog & Friends #42)
• The se7en deadly sins of Go (Go Time #294)

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Johnny, Mat, Jaana, and special guest Stevenson Jean-Pierre discuss serverless in a Go world. What is serverless, what use cases is serverless good for, what are the trade offs, and how do you program with Go differently in the context of serverless?

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Featuring:

• Stevenson Jean-Pierre – GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Kubeless - The Kubernetes native serverless framework
• Knative - Building blocks that simplify how you deploy and run functions atop Kubernetes and Istio. On any cloud.
• This tweet from Kelsey Hightower - “In less than 15 minutes I was able to open a new @zeithq account, install the Now cli, create a Go function, link it to GitHub, deploy it, and hit it with curl. 🤯 If this is the direction general compute is headed, count me in.”
• This tweet from Ian Molee - “Watch me code, deploy, and exercise a “serverless” Go function in about a minute, using @zeithq zero-config. In 2-3 years remember @jessfraz told us about #configless in 2019!”

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