Mat's GopherCon EU diary
Join Mat Ryer on his journey to Berlin for GopherCon EU 2022. Along the way he chats with Egon Elbre, Ale Kennedy, Ole Bulbuk, Christian Haas, Bill Kennedy & Ron Evans. Danke!
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
Your source for wide-ranging discussions from all around the Go community. Panelists include Mat Ryer, Jon Calhoun, Natalie Pistunovich, Johnny Boursiquot, Angelica Hill, Kris Brandow, and Ian Lopshire.
We discuss cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker... oh and also Go!
Some people search for GoTime or GoTimeFM and can't find the show, so now the strings GoTime and GoTimeFM are in our description too.
Episodes
Functional programming with generics?
We did an episode on functional programming in Go with Aaron Schlesinger back in 2019... But that was before generics were a thing. Let’s revisit the topic and discuss the pros and cons now that we have generics. What's changed? What hasn't?
Sep 30, 2022•54 min
Engineering interview tips & tricks
In this episode, we will be exploring interviewing as a Software Engineer. Tips, tricks, and gotchas, as well as potentially some interviewing horror stories and red flags to avoid at all costs. We’re joined by Emma Draper, Engineering Manager at the New York Times based in Arizona, and Kate Jonas, goes by Jonas, Technical Enablement Manager at Datadog based in Denver.
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Stay agile out there
Inbal Cohen, Product expert and Agile evangelist, joins Natalie & Angelica for a conversation about all things Agile. Inbal lays out some agile tips for Go devs, discusses if and how remote work changes things, describes some downsides of the methodology, and more.
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Avoiding bloat
Egon Elbre and Roger Peppe join Mat for a conversation all about bloat (and how to avoid it). Expect talk of code bloat, binary bloat, feature bloat, and an even-more-bloated-than-usual unpopular opinion segment.
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Inside GopherCon
Ever wondered how GopherCon came to be, and how it's put together every year. In this show we will be chatted with Erik St. Martin, who has been there from the start about how GopherCon came to be, how this year's conference came together, as well as why events like GopherCon as so great! We are joined by Erik St. Martin, GopherCon Organizer and Co-Author Go in Action.
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min
The art of the PR: Part 2
In this episode, we'll be further exploring PRs. Check out The art of the PR: Part 1 if you haven't yet. What is it that makes a PR a good PR? How do you consider PRs in an open source repo? How do you vet contributions from people who aren't a part of the repository? How does giving feedback and encouragement fit in to the PR process? We'll be debating the details, and trying to help our fellow gophers perfect the art of the PR. We are joined by the awesome Anderson Queiroz, hosted by Natalie P...
Aug 27, 2022•55 min
The art of the PR: Part 1
In this episode, we will be exploring PRs. What makes a good PR? How do you give the best PR review? Is there such thing as too small, or big of a PR? We’ll be debating the details, and trying to help our fellow gophers perfect the art of the PR. We are joined by three wonderful guests Jeff Hernandez, Sarah Duncan, and Natasha Dykes. Hosted by Angelica Hill & Natalie Pistunovich.
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min
The pain of dependency management
Baruch Sadogursky (Chief Sticker Officer at JFrog) joins Natalie & Johnny to lament the current state of dependency management in Go and other languages. They discuss the problems dependency managers face, possible technical mitigations like SBOMs, people problems that will never be solved by tech, and take questions from listeners in the #gotimefm channel of Gophers Slack.
Aug 11, 2022•45 min
Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Edition
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon Europe 2022! Go Time's Natalie Pistunovich joins forces with Ronna Steinberg & Robert Burke to battle it out with V Körbes, Tamir Bahar & Konrad Richie. Let's see who can better guess what the GopherCon Europe gophers had to say!
Aug 04, 2022•41 min
What's new in Go 1.19
Go 1.18 was a major release where we saw the introduction of generics into the language as well as other notables such as fuzzing and workspaces. With Go 1.19 slated to come out next month, one has to wonder what’s next. Are we in store to be blown away by new and major features like we saw in 1.18? Not exactly but there are still lots of improvements to be on the lookout for. Joining Mat & Johnny to touch on some of the most interesting ones is Carl Johnson, himself a contributor to the 1.19 re...
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Go for beginners ♻️
How do beginners learn Go? This episode is meant to engage both non-Go users that listen to sister podcasts here on Changelog, or any Go-curious programmers out there, as well as encourage those that have started to learn Go and want to level up beyond the basics. On this episode we're aiming to answer questions about how to learn Go, identify resources that are available, and where you can go to continue your learning journey.
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Might Go actually be OOP?
A conversation with Ronna Steinberg, who was an OOP developer for many years, and now is a Go Google Developer Expert. Ronna has been thinking about Go and OOP for awhile, asking herself whether or not Go is an object oriented programming language. Tune in to find out her answer and hear some of the options gophers have for object oriented design.
Jul 14, 2022•58 min
Go tooling ♻️
We're talking about the tools we use every day help us to be productive! This show will be a great introduction for those new to Go tooling, with some discussion around what we think of them after using some of them for many years.
Jul 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Thoughts on velocity
A deep discussion on that tension between development speed and software quality. What is velocity? How does it differ from speed? How do we measure it? How do we optimize it?
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 15 min
2053: A Go Odyssey
The year is 2053. The tabs-vs-spaces wars are long over. Ron Evans is the only Go programmer still alive on Earth. All he does is maintain old Go code. It's terrible! He must find a way to warn his fellow gophers before it's too late. Good thing he finally got that PDQ transmission system working...
Jun 23, 2022•55 min
Observability in the wild: strategies that work
This week we're featuring an episode of Grafana's Big Tent! LEGO Group principal engineer Nayana Shetty swaps observability survival stories (to drill or not to drill?) with hosts Mat Ryer and Matt Toback. The trio also reveals new and different observability strategies that have been successful and effective in their organizations. Plus: Nayana shares how she built her successful observability career brick by brick.
Jun 16, 2022•58 min
Going through the news
We're trying something new this week: discussing the news! Natalie, Kris & Ian weigh in on GopherCon's move to Chicago, Google DDoSing SourceHut, reflections on Go's success, and a new/old proposal for anonymous function syntax.
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min
The myth of incremental progress
During a conversation in the #gotime channel of Gopher Slack, Jerod mentioned that some people paint with a blank canvas while others paint by numbers. In this 8th episode of the maintenance series, we’re talking about maintaining our knowledge. With Jerod’s analogy and a little help from a Leslie Lamport interview, our panel discusses the myth of incremental progress.
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Berlin's transition to Go
The Berlin tech ecosystem was all about PHP/Python for a long time. In the recent years it became a tech hub and an early adopter of Go. In this conversation we'll see how this reflects in the 10+ years old Go meetup, with the meetup organizing team.
May 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Revisiting Caddy
Matt Holt & Mohammed S. Al Sahaf sit down with Natalie & Jon to discuss every gopher's favorite open source web server with automatic HTTPS! In addition to laying out what Caddy is and why it's interesting, we dive deep into how you can (and why you might want to) extend Caddy as a result of its modular architecture.
May 19, 2022•52 min
What to do when projects get big and messy
Another entry in the maintenance series! Throughout the series we’ve discussed building versus buying, building actually maintainable software, maintaining ourselves, open source maintenance, legacy code, and most recently Go project structure. In this 7th installment of the series, we continue narrowing our focus by talking about what to do when projects get big and messy.
May 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Go and PHP sitting in a tree...
Can Go help you write faster PHP apps? In this episode, we explore the unusual pairing of Go and PHP that led to the RoadRunner project, a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer, and process manager that is all written in Go.
May 05, 2022•55 min
Analyzing static analysis
Matan Peled from Technion University joins Natalie & Mat to discuss his PhD research on meta programming and static analyzers. How does Go's measure up? What would Matan's look like if he built one? All that and more!
Apr 28, 2022•58 min
Instrumentation for gophers
Björn Rabenstein & Bartlomiej Płotka join Mat & Johnny to discuss observability, monitoring and instrumentation for gophers.
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr
Go code organization best practices
We often have code that's similar between projects and we find ourselves copying that code around. In this episode we discuss what to do with this common code, how to organize it, and what code qualifies as this common code.
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Answering questions for the Go-curious
Has Go caught your interest, but you just haven't had the time/opportunity to really dig into it? Are you relatively productive in your current language/ecosystem but wonder if the grass truly is greener on Go's side of the fence? If so, this episode's for you!
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 1 min
How can we prevent legacy from creeping in?
In this episode we will discuss what it’s like to work with legacy code. How you work with it, how to avoid issues arising due to it, as well as when a greenfield rewrite is the best path forward. Hosted by Angelica Hill, joined by some wonderful guests: Dominic St-Pierre, Jeff Hernandez, Misha Avrekh, and Jon Sabados.
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Making the command line glamorous
This week we're bringing The Changelog to Go Time — we had an awesome conversation with Toby Padilla, Co-Founder at Charm where they’re building tools to make the command line glamorous. Toby and the team at Charm have gone "all in" on Go — all of Charm is written in Go. They moved to Go from other languages, saying "Go is the answer to building these type of tools." And even on this episode Toby says "I love Rust, it’s really cool, it’s a super-exciting language, but I jumped ship. I wanna be m...
Mar 25, 2022•2 hr 30 min
Mastering Go
What does it take to master a programming language like Go? Joining us is the author of Mastering Go to help us answer that very question and to discuss the third edition of the book.
Mar 17, 2022•41 min