GDG Overview of Go

Overview of Go presentation from Go Evening at Google Developer Group Cardiff

Code is on GitHub: https://github.com/ian-kent/gdg-overview-of-go

Transcript

1. An overview of Go Google Developer Group Cardiff 29th September 2016 @iankent ian-kent
2. A brief history of Go • Started at Google in 2007 • Open sourced in 2009 • 1.0 released in March 2012 • 1.7 released in August 2016 • Built for modern computing - concurrency, parallelism, scale, performance and networking
3. Why use Go? • Simple language and syntax • Excellent toolchain • Strongly typed • Fast and lightweight • Great community
4. What’s built with Go? Prometheus TERRAFORM
5. Who’s using Go?
6. A 10-minute demo • Microservices • HTTP • JSON • TLS
7. ‘Hello GDG’ API • Generates ‘Hello {name}’ • Returns the result as JSON • Can be passed a name • Or can be passed multiple names
8. Useful resources • https://golang.org • A Tour of Go
 https://tour.golang.org • The Go Blog
 https://blog.golang.org/ • Effective Go
 https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html