Drupal and the secret of my success
As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …
Hi 👋🏼, I'm Steve Francia
I build tools that make developers’ lives better.
I created open source projects like Hugo and Cobra that have earned over 185K+ GitHub stars.
I’ve shaped the modern developer stack: from architecting MongoDB’s user experience and scaling Go at Google, to pioneering container standards at Docker and driving AI at Two Sigma.
Here, I write about the human stack and the art of building products and teams that last.
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
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
I am at GolangUK in London, having just finished giving the opening keynote. I was a bit more …
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
A semi-autobiographical presentation given to the winners of Google’s 2017 Code-in …
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
A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at CRAFT 2017 outlining …
Go Developer Survey
I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …
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 am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be …
the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote
Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. Linux has become the foundation for …
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
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to …
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
Not a generic list of programming mistakes, these are the lessons I wish I learned earlier …
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
I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …