Ian and Johnny join Kris to speculate on Google laying off the Go team, implications on the language's future, ownership of Go, API SDK development, transitioning to V2 packages, evolution of Go and SQLite, and a fun discussion on text editors, keyboard layouts, and calendars.

Learn how to create a successful Go workshop, optimize incident management with FireHydrant, and simplify SDK creation. Explore interactive learning, effective communication, and the importance of teaching assistants in workshops. Discover the art of using analogies for technical communication and the value of engaging with instructors for optimal learning experiences.

Guests Filippo Valsorda, Roland Shoemaker & Nicola Murino discuss TLS advancements in Go's crypto libraries, testing release candidates, SDK generation, post-quantum algorithms, vulnerability analysis, and supporting open source. They also share personal experiences and reflections on technology disconnect, pigeons, rats, and past podcast episodes.

Security experts Ben Burkert and Chris Stolt discuss challenges in setting up secure local development environments, emphasizing the importance of encryption, HTTPS, and efficient certificate management tools. They highlight the significance of a developer-centric approach in certificate integration, explore complexities in managing certificates, introduce LCL Host for trust store automation, and praise Go's cryptography libraries for secure TLS traffic handling.

Brazil-based software developer Carlos Becker discusses the joy of GOOS and GOARCH in shipping software. They explore GoReleaser, K3s, Pprof, testscript, and efficient garbage collection in Go. The conversation delves into multi-platform deployment, home automation projects, streamlining approach in Go, comparing Go with Java, and using Go for DevOps and MLOps. They also touch on prompt engineering as a valuable skill.

Felix Geisendörfer & Michael Knyszek discuss the magic of Go execution traces, highlighting their benefits in detecting latency issues and inefficiencies, the evolution of debugging practices, and the introduction of an experimental API. They also share controversial opinions on runtime deprecation and social media platforms, while exploring the world of improved audio quality and tracing tools.

The hosts discuss debugging techniques, with Bill preferring production tools over debuggers. Matt provides counterpoints. They explore coding style guidelines, challenges with PagerDuty, importance of logging, and evolution of developer tools. The podcast also touches on human behavior in relation to app icon color and organization, as well as app installations and travel perspectives.

New Go developer questions answered - best practices, language quirks, reimagining alerting with FireHydrant, error handling tips, project management, database handling, concurrency with mutex and channels

Discussing the challenges of diving into unfamiliar codebases, exploring the importance of knowledgeable guides, good documentation, and experienced team members. Delving into tracing functions in different languages, using interfaces, and navigating codebase changes. Touching on the significance of meaningful data collection, observability, and effective knowledge management. Advocating for discipline, clarity, and gradual improvements over rash rewrites.

Industry veterans discuss AI's impact on job security in the tech industry. They explore AI's hype, job displacement, coding with AI tools, tech debt in startups, AI's role in code generation, importance of diverse skills, web frameworks, cryptocurrency skepticism, programming practices, adapting to tech changes, and debunking fitness myths.