Building a startup on Go

Blake Mizerany joined the show to talk about coming to Go from Ruby, Go’s growth and adoption over the past 7 years, adopting external dependencies, building a startup on Go, and coding as CEO.

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Featuring:

• Blake Mizerany – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Blake had to take off early from the show, so at around 20 minutes in Brian, Carlisia and Erik discuss the latest projects on their Go radar.

• Introducing Changelog 2.0
• Blake Mizerany at dotGo 2014 — Three fallacies of dependencies
• Cory LaNou’s Running a Go Meetup project
• go-conv - Conversions without using reflection across most built-in Go types through type assertion switches.
• gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
• SummitDB - In-memory NoSQL database with ACID transactions, Raft consensus, and Redis API
• From Matt Holt - JSON-to-Go converts JSON to Go struct
• From Matt Holt - curl-to-Go instantly converts curl commands to Go code
• Write React Components in Go
• go-qemu - Go packages to interact with QEMU using the QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
• myLG - an open source software utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one network diagnostic tool.
• stability-badges - SVG badges for Go projects
• netstat - Find out who is listening on a specific port
• lsof - List of open files or open ports
• strace - It’s diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!