Beyond the Distributed System

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1. Beyond the Distributed System Verónica López dotGo 2015
2. Developers around the world adopt a programming language for many different reasons: • It’s cool: everybody’s using it • They saw it in Hacker News • It’s actually a great tool to solve their problem • Their employer requires them to learn it • It makes money
3. On the other hand… Real-life programmers who use the lang for day-to-day stuff ~Cool projects~people Contributors
4. • Outside of tech bubbles, people use the languages to make their lives easier, not to create the next big project • Not everybody dreams about creating distributed, scalable and concurrent systems…
6. • Like it or not, over the years, these people are the ones who define whether a tech tool is succesful or not. Think of: • Schools
7. the interesting use cases
8. The Android Case • As of 2014, we can build Android apps with Go • People complained about the building system and lack of documentation (o/) • Whining almost made us miss the most awesome point: you can now create mobile apps with Go (Evil Java, I see you).
9. Truth is…
10. However, this hasn’t stopped people from creating awesome apps (beyond demos)
11. Lantern • Lantern is a desktop app that delivers fast and reliable access to the Internet • Proxy tool lets you access blocked sites. Useful for countries with censored Internet. (Or office)Built with Go
12. Firetweet • Android app powered by Lantern. Unblocked access to Twitter. • HTTP traffic routed through a distributed network of direct proxies
13. • Firetweet was built for Android with the SDK option: Java code using Go as a cross-platform library. • Used a lighter version of Lantern (less features, still in Go).