Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Carlos Alexandro Becker joins Mat, Natalie, & Johnny to discuss the ins and outs of releasing your Go code. Carlos created and maintains GoReleaser, a popular tool that helps you deliver your Go binaries as fast and easily as possible.

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Featuring:

• Carlos Becker – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• GoReleaser’s website
• GoReleaser on GitHub

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this week’s episode we’re talking about the news! In this laugh-filled episode, Kris is joined by Ian & Johnny to discuss the future of Go, both the Go team itself and iterations of packages within the standard library; Microsoft creating a Go blog & a Go fork; and SQLite and Go.

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Featuring:

• Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
• Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• If Google decided to part with the core Go team, what would that mean for its future adoption?
• Microsoft now has a Go blog
• Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
• Redis re-implemented in Go with SQLite

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Natalie is joined by Carlos Becker (a Brazil-based software developer who maintains GoReleaser and other OSS software) to discuss how GOOS and GOARCH spark joy.

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Featuring:

• Carlos Becker – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• GoReleaser
• K3s
• Pprof
• testscript
• uber-go/goleak

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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 – Twitter, GitHub
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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!”

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!