Introduction

Asim Aslam joined us to talk about Micro, a pluggable RPC based library which provides the fundamental building blocks for writing microservices in Go. We also discussed open source sustainability, microservices, and serverless architecture.

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Featuring:

• Asim Aslam – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Micro
• Blog post: “Writing microservices with Go Micro”
• Micro Slack
• What is Serverless Computing? (Quora)
• Serverless Framework - Build web, mobile and IoT applications with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google CloudFunctions & more!
• Apex - Servless architecture
• Source code behind IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk

Projects and News

• Go 1.7 Release Notes
• Subtests and Sub-benchmarks
• Go 1.7 Context
• Torus: distributed storage by CoreOS built for Kubernetes
• A distributed, serverless, configuration tool using AWS services by Tom Maiaroto

Free Software Friday

• Brian - CoreOS
• Carlisia - State Management for Go, inspired by Redux by Luis Vinicius Pacheco
• Asim: Postfix
• Erik - VLC

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!