What advantages could GoLang give your business - Matt Ryer

In this episode Andy Davis talks to Matt Ryer. He’s currently an author, programmer and gopher and currently the Principle Engineer at Veritone. On the show Matt chats to Andy about the GoLang programming language, why it’s different from other languages and what are its advantages. They also discuss gamifying the coding process and they also talk about open source online communities

Matt is a creative and agile hands-on leader who knows how to deliver world class products and services. He is the author of Go Programming Blueprints.

Show Notes:

1.01 What made you want to learn GoLang.

3.09 Was there a particular project you were working on that made you start using GoLang?

9.33 GoLang’s advantages.

12.05 Do you think there’s been a lot of thought put into GoLang by Google and what do you think their aim behind the language was?

14.50 Have you met any of the people who wrote GoLang?

17.39 Meeting and collaborating with people in online communities.

19.39 Gamification of the coding process.

22.30 Measuring performance for code writers.

25.09 Different ways to micromanage teams.

27.32 Talking about line of sight coding.

33.33 GoLang generating momentum in the tech market.

38.19 What direction do you see Golang heading in?

41.47 What keeps you motivated and what are you striving for?

45.34 Talking about open source online communities.