Monorepos, Mentoring, Testing (Go Time #17)

Bryan Lyles joined the show to talk about career progression in tech and learning, the idea of a 10x developer, the practice of testing, and advantages and disadvantages of a monorepo.

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Featuring:

• Bryan Liles – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Double Dutch (jump rope)
• Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age
• GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video)
• Jack Lindamood’s blog
• Ines Sombra
• Great example of an API client in Go: Digital Ocean API client
• Bryan’s TAFT talk about testing (2008)
• Bryan’s talk at Abstract Conference: Embracing your impending obsolescence (2016)
• Brian Ketelsen’s talk at Abstract Conference: Generate All The Things (2016)
• Bryan talk at LynuxCon, AppOps: A Concise Guide for Moving from Development to Production (2016)
• Bryan’s talk at Velocity: Under the covers: Capturing application errors, logs, and metrics (2016)
• Bryan’s keynoting at Codedaze Conference (2016)
• Bryan at Code Summit in Lisbon (2016)
• The Science of Swearing: A look into the human MIND and other less socially acceptable four-letter words
• Testify package for testing
• Gomega: “Ginkgo’s Preffered Matcher Library”
• GoConvey: “Write behavioral tests in your editor. Get live results in your browser.”
• Kubernetes as an example of tests for an application (as opposed to a library)
  -Go in a Monorepo: cthulhu (blog)
• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
• Taming Your Go Dependencies (blog)
• Go extension for Visual Studio editor

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- pfSense is a free and open source firewall, router and more
• Erik - Ansible: a radically simple IT automation platform
• Bryan - Ben Johnson’s Go Walkthrough

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!