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-Go talks at FOSDEM 2014
+# Go talks at FOSDEM 2014
24 Feb 2014
Tags: fosdem, youtube, talk
+Summary: At [FOSDEM](http://fosdem.org/) on the 2nd of February 2014 members of the Go community presented a series of talks in the Go Devroom. The day was a huge success, with 13 great talks presented to a consistently jam-packed room.
Andrew Gerrand
-* Introduction
+## Introduction
-At [[http://fosdem.org/][FOSDEM]] on the 2nd of February 2014 members of the Go
+At [FOSDEM](http://fosdem.org/) on the 2nd of February 2014 members of the Go
community presented a series of talks in the Go Devroom. The day was a huge
success, with 13 great talks presented to a consistently jam-packed room.
@@ -14,15 +15,15 @@ Video recordings of the talks are now available, and a selection of these
videos are presented below.
The complete series of talks is available
-[[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtLJO5JKE5YDKG4WcaNts3IVZqhDmmuBH][as a YouTube playlist]].
+[as a YouTube playlist](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtLJO5JKE5YDKG4WcaNts3IVZqhDmmuBH).
(You can also get them directly at the
-[[http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4601/Sunday/][FOSDEM video archive]].)
+[FOSDEM video archive](http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4601/Sunday/).)
-* Scaling with Go: YouTube's Vitess
+## Scaling with Go: YouTube's Vitess
Google Engineer Sugu Sougoumarane described how he and his
-team built [[https://github.com/youtube/vitess][Vitess]] in Go to help scale
-[[https://youtube.com][YouTube]].
+team built [Vitess](https://github.com/youtube/vitess) in Go to help scale
+[YouTube](https://youtube.com).
Vitess is a set of servers and tools primarily developed in Go.
It helps scale MySQL databases for the web, and is currently used as a
@@ -34,11 +35,11 @@ Sugu also talks abou tips and techniques used to scale Vitess using Go.
.iframe //www.youtube.com/embed/qATTTSg6zXk 310 550
-The slides for the talk are [[https://github.com/youtube/vitess/blob/master/doc/Vitess2014.pdf?raw=true][available here]].
+The slides for the talk are [available here](https://github.com/youtube/vitess/blob/master/doc/Vitess2014.pdf?raw=true).
-* Camlistore
+## Camlistore
-[[http://camlistore.org/][Camlistore]] is designed to be "your personal storage
+[Camlistore](http://camlistore.org/) is designed to be "your personal storage
system for life, putting you in control, and designed to last." It's open
source, under nearly 4 years of active development, and extremely flexible. In
this talk, Brad Fitzpatrick and Mathieu Lonjaret explain why they built it,
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ what it does, and talk about its design.
.iframe //www.youtube.com/embed/yvjeIZgykiA 310 550
-* Write your own Go compiler
+## Write your own Go compiler
Elliot Stoneham explains the potential for Go as a portable language and
reviews the Go tools that make that such an exciting possibility.
@@ -61,11 +62,11 @@ your own."
.iframe //www.youtube.com/embed/Qe8Dq7V3hXY 310 550
-* More
+## More
There were many more great talks, so please check out the complete series
-[[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtLJO5JKE5YDKG4WcaNts3IVZqhDmmuBH][as a YouTube playlist]].
-In particular, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwpI5ONWGxc&list=PLtLJO5JKE5YDKG4WcaNts3IVZqhDmmuBH&index=7][lightning talks]] were a lot of fun.
+[as a YouTube playlist](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtLJO5JKE5YDKG4WcaNts3IVZqhDmmuBH).
+In particular, the [lightning talks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwpI5ONWGxc&list=PLtLJO5JKE5YDKG4WcaNts3IVZqhDmmuBH&index=7) were a lot of fun.
I would like to give my personal thanks to the excellent speakers, Mathieu
Lonjaret for managing the video gear, and to the FOSDEM staff for making all