Description
Go has rapidly become the preferred language for cloud development. Because of this, many developers are curious about learning Go and wonder how their existing skills and knowledge maps to Go. This talk starts with a quick tour of Go, the motivation for its creation and an overview of its features.
In addition, we’ll also take a deep dive into one of Go’s more controversial features - how it implements error handling.
Speaker: Jon Bodner
Jon has been a software engineer, lead developer and architect for over 20 years. In that time, he has worked on software across many fields, including education, finance, commerce, healthcare, law, government, and internet infrastructure.
Jon is a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, where he has contributed to their development and testing workflow, developed patented techniques for web payment page detection and population, and co-authored tools for finding and managing software development issues.
Jon is a frequent speaker at Go conferences, and his blog posts on Go and software engineering have been viewed more than 300,000 times. He is the creator of the Proteus data access library (github.com/jonbodner/proteus) and co-developer of checks-out, a fork of the LGTM project (github.com/capitalone/checks-out).
SPECIAL BONUS FOR ATTENDEES: We will be giving away a few copies of Jon’s book “Learning Go” at the end of the event!
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Date & Time
Tuesday May 18, 2021
06:00 PM to 07:30 PM EDT
Agenda
6:00 - 6:10 Networking & Technical Check
6:10 - 6:15 Announcements
6:15 - 7:15 Main Presentation
7:15 - 7:25 Questions & Discussion
7:25 - 7:30 Wrap-up
Venue
Online event