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InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years

InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years

I had the pleasure of speaking with Olimpiu Pop from InfoQ about the Go language and community. …

Gophers Say GopherCon Edition

Gophers Say GopherCon Edition

Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …

Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021

Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021

Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …

Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go

Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go

Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …

Break things on purpose podcast

Break things on purpose podcast

I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …

Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast

Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast

I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …

The Legacy of Go

The Legacy of Go

This presentation was developed for GoLab in Firenze Italy and delivered as the closing keynote …

What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like

What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like

Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many …

Go – On The Shoulders of Giants

Go – On The Shoulders of Giants

This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …

演讲:Go, a global phenomenon (英语演讲)

演讲:Go, a global phenomenon (英语演讲)

This presentation was given in 深圳市 China, July 2018 as part of the InfoQ ArchSummit conference. …

New Go Branding Strategy

New Go Branding Strategy

I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …

State of the Go Nation – Gophercon Brasil 2017

State of the Go Nation – Gophercon Brasil 2017

This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” …

State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017

State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017

An overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where …

State Of The Gopher Nation - Golang UK 2017

State Of The Gopher Nation - Golang UK 2017

I am at GolangUK in London, having just finished giving the opening keynote. I was a bit more …

How to Contribute to Go

How to Contribute to Go

I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at …

Life, Liberty, and Golang

Life, Liberty, and Golang

A semi-autobiographical presentation given to the winners of Google’s 2017 Code-in …

Building an Awesome CLI App in Go – OSCON 2017

Building an Awesome CLI App in Go – OSCON 2017

A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at OSCON 2017 outlining …

Building an Awesome Cli App in Go – Craft

Building an Awesome Cli App in Go – Craft

A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at CRAFT 2017 outlining …

Go Developer Survey

Go Developer Survey

I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …

Hugo goes global

Hugo goes global

Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo …

I’m joining the Go team at Google

I’m joining the Go team at Google

I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be …

7 common mistakes in Go – GopherFest 2015

7 common mistakes in Go – GopherFest 2015

Given at GopherFest 2015. This is an updated version of the talk I gave in NYC Nov 14 at …

What Every Open Source Project Needs

What Every Open Source Project Needs

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to …

How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member

How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member

A friend of mine who is a very talented writer recently became intrigued with open source and …

7 Common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them – Gotham Go

7 Common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them – Gotham Go

Not a generic list of programming mistakes, these are the lessons I wish I learned earlier …

Hugo Summer 2014 Update

Hugo Summer 2014 Update

Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a …

Evangelism is NOT Sales

Evangelism is NOT Sales

I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …

Go for Object Oriented Programmers

Go for Object Oriented Programmers

If you’re a OO programmer, especially one with a background with dynamic languages and are curious about go then this talk is for you. We will cover everything you need to know to leverage your existing skills and quickly start coding in golang

Using MongoDB with Go and mgo

Using MongoDB with Go and mgo

This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go.

Getting Started with Go

Getting Started with Go

This presentation will walk you through the steps needed to get started with Go.

Pointers vs References

Pointers vs References

Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …

Is Go an Object Oriented language?

Is Go an Object Oriented language?

To truly understand what it means to be ‘object-oriented’ you need to look back at the …

9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released

I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …

Cross Compiling with Go

Cross Compiling with Go

One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different …

A modern CLI Commander for go

A modern CLI Commander for go

Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.

Refactoring with go fmt

Refactoring with go fmt

using go fmt to quickly refactor your code

Building Modern Web Applications

Building Modern Web Applications

I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …

MongoDB and PHP Webinar

MongoDB and PHP Webinar

Workshop on MongoDB and PHP

Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang

Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang

Hugo Website Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy …

Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang

Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang

Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing …

spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …

Release early, release often to minimize risk

Release early, release often to minimize risk

Release Cycles have been debated for the last 30 years and will certainly be for the next 30. …

Getting Started with Symfony2

Getting Started with Symfony2

In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky, …

On Symfony2

On Symfony2

Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.

Software Development's Magic Triangle

Software Development's Magic Triangle

There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …