Serverless and Go (Go Time #96)

Johnny, Mat, Jaana, and special guest Stevenson Jean-Pierre discuss serverless in a Go world. What is serverless, what use cases is serverless good for, what are the trade offs, and how do you program with Go differently in the context of serverless?

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Featuring:

• Stevenson Jean-Pierre – GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Jaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Kubeless - The Kubernetes native serverless framework
• Knative - Building blocks that simplify how you deploy and run functions atop Kubernetes and Istio. On any cloud.
• This tweet from Kelsey Hightower - “In less than 15 minutes I was able to open a new @zeithq account, install the Now cli, create a Go function, link it to GitHub, deploy it, and hit it with curl. 🤯 If this is the direction general compute is headed, count me in.”
• This tweet from Ian Molee - “Watch me code, deploy, and exercise a “serverless” Go function in about a minute, using @zeithq zero-config. In 2-3 years remember @jessfraz told us about #configless in 2019!”

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