Go at Google I/O and Gopher SummerFest 6 Oct 2014 Tags: conference, io, report Francesc Campoy * Introduction The week of June 23rd was a good week for gophers in San Francisco. Go was a big part of [[https://www.google.com/events/io][Google I/O]] on Wednesday and Thursday, and on Monday we took advantage of the large gopher population to run the [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/170421402/][Go SummerFest]], a special instance of the [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf][GoSF]] meetup. This blog post is a recap of both events. * Gopher SummerFest .image io2014/summerfest.jpg _ 800 On the Monday, more than 200 gophers gathered at the Google office in San Francisco to hear a series of talks: - The State of Go, ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVQm9tdncxWnJGUTQ/edit][slides]] and [[http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/state-go][video]]) by Andrew Gerrand. - I was wrong, again! ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVTTUwS25qaFlzMGs/edit][slides]] and [[http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/why-we-use-go][video]]), by Derek Collison. - Go at Splice ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVZklnNnJITlhSbXc/edit][slides]]), by Matt Aimonetti - Quick testing with quick ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVVElmOHpwamp4aTA/edit][slides]]), by Evan Shaw - Something about Go (no slides), by Blake Mizerany. More comments and pictures from the event are available on the [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/170421402/][meetup event page]]. * Go at Google I/O On the Wednesday and Thursday, Go was at Google I/O in two different formats: the Go booth in the sandbox area and the Go code labs available in the code lab area and all around the world through [[https://www.google.com/events/io/io-extended][I/O Extended]]. ** The Go booth .image io2014/booth.jpg _ 800 The Go booth was part of the Developer Sandbox area. For the two days of the conference, some gophers from Google and other companies gave a series of talks and demonstrations. The talks were not recorded, but the slides and some screencasts and blog posts will be shared soon. - Organizing Go Code, by David Crawshaw. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/organizeio.slide#1][slides]]) - Testing Techniques, by Andrew Gerrand. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndmB0bj7eyw][video]] and [[https://talks.golang.org/2014/testing.slide#1][slides]]) - Go for Java Developers, by Francesc Campoy. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/go4java.slide#1][slides]]) - Camlistore: Android, ARM, App Engine, Everywhere, by Brad Fitzpatrick. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/camlistore.slide#1][slides]]) - Go Compilation Complexities, by Ian Lance Taylor. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/compiling.slide#1][slides]]) - SourceGraph: a Code Search Engine in Go, by Quinn Slack. ([[https://youtu.be/-DpKaoPz8l8][video]] and [[https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/sourcegraph/talks/google-io-2014/gio2014.slide#1][slides]]) We also organized Q&A sessions and lightning talks by members of the Go community: - [[https://twitter.com/bradrydzewski][Brad Rydzewski]] talked about his project [[https://drone.io/][drone.io]]. - [[https://twitter.com/barakmich][Barak Michener]] presented [[https://github.com/google/cayley][Cayley]], an open source graph database. - [[https://twitter.com/mattetti][Matt Aimonetti]] discussed how Go is used at [[https://splice.com/][Splice]]. - [[https://twitter.com/ssougou][Sugu Sougoumarane]] talked about how [[https://github.com/youtube/vitess][vitess]] solved scalability problems at YouTube. ([[https://youtu.be/midJ6b1LkA0][video]]) ** The Go code lab This year attendees of Google I/O had a code lab area with self-service computers where they could sit and learn Go. The code labs were also available to anyone through the Google I/O extended brand. You can try it yourself at [[https://io2014codelabs.appspot.com/][io2014codelabs.appspot.com]]. .image io2014/collage.jpg _ 800 * Conclusion Thanks to the organizers, speakers, and attendees who helped make these events a great success. See you next year. (Or at [[http://dotgo.eu][dotGo]] this week!)