Go on the Cloud with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot

Join us today for a conversation with Andrew Gerrand and Chris Broadfoot from the Go team. They will discuss with your hosts Francesc Campoy and Mark Mandel why Go is so successful for all the things cloud and how you can use it with Google Cloud Platform.

About Andrew

Andrew has worked on Go at Google since almost the beginning, and has written tons of blog posts and talks on Go. He spends most of his time making Go easier to use.

About Chris

Chris joined the Go and Cloud teams last year to improve the experience of writing Go applications for Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he worked at Google on the Maps APIs for around five years.

Cool thing of the week

• EVE Fanfest 2016 - Kubernetes and Google Cloud video

Interviews

• The Go programming language web
• Go on Google App Engine docs
• Google Santa Tracker web
• Tweak The Turkey with a Go powered Doodle doodle
• gofmt command docs
• goimports command docs
• Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey YouTube
• Bookshelf tutorial for Go on App Engine tutorial
• The Go Tour
• Go Samples repo

Question of the week

• Google Cloud Dataflow docs
• Google BigQuery docs
• MapReduce wikipedia

Where can you find us next?

• We’ll both be speaking at Google I/O next week!
• Mark will then be at Change the Game SF
• Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.

The Go gopher, by Renee French