Infra, Devops, Systems Engineer, SRE, and the list goes on and on. What do these terms mean? Why does every job listing for the same role seem to entail different responsibiliities? Why is it important for developers to be familiar with the infrastructure their code is running on? Tune in to gain some insights into all of this and more! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Datadog – Do you have an app in production that is slower than you like? Of course you do…is the performance all over the place…sometimes fast, sometimes slow? Do you know why? Well, with Datadog you will. Troubleshoot your app’s performance with end-to-end tracing and in one click correlate those Go traces with related logs and metrics. Use detailed flame graphs to identify bottlenecks and latency in your apps. Start your free trial, install the agent, create a dashboard, and get a free t-shirt! Head to datadog.com/gotime to get started. Pace.dev – Minimalist web based management tool for your teams. Async by default communication and simplistic task management gives you everything you need to build your next thing. Brought to you by Go Time panelist Mat Ryer. Try it out today! Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Shubheksha Jalan – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Enter to win Practical AI hardware! Junior Engineers Are Features, Not Bugs - A talk from SRE CON discussing the benefits of hiring junior engineers for infra roles. The baseds series - A series of articles related to distributed systems. hi@shubheksha.com - Get in touch with our guest, Shubheksha Oxford study on job discrimination Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is used all over the web as a text-based way of transmitting data. In this episode, we explore Go’s encoding/json package, and others with Daniel Marti. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this! Featuring:Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Building a high performance JSON parser - paper by Dave Cheney about writing a JSON parser. encoding/json - json package in the standard library Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Robert and Ian join us to talk about the latest updates on generics in Go. What type of feedback are they looking for as developers get their hands on tools designed to experiment with generics and Go? What was the deal with the featherweight Go paper that also discussed generics? Why can’t we use angle brackets for generics? Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Robert Griesemer – GitHub, XIan Lance Taylor – Website, GitHub, XCarmen Andoh – GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:pssttt Changelog++ 🤫 Generics Draft Design Featherweight Go Paper Featherweight Go Discussion on Youtube Issue where generics are proposed on Github Proposing Changes to Go (instructions) Robert’s message to golang-nuts on syntax - this is where an example of why angle brackets are problematic is provided. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The panel discuss testing frameworks in Go. After a brief overview of the concepts involved, we discuss how testing frameworks can make our lives easier, and why some people still choose to avoid them. Mat Ryer and Mark Bates chat with Boyan Soubachov about the future of the Testify project. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Boyan Soubachov – GitHub, LinkedInMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMark Bates – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Giveaway details!! Check this blog post for all the details to win a free copy of Dracula PRO && 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers Testify Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Your first week with a new programming language can be tricky. In this episode Jon is joined by Jacquie and DaShaun to talk about their first week with Go. What was their primary focus? What resources did they leverage? What made it stick, and what didn’t? Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Gophercises – Gophercises is a free course that will help you become more familiar with Go while developing your skills as a programmer. The course consists of 20 different mini-applications, packages, and tools that are each designed to teach you something unique about Go. Get started at gophercises.com/gotime Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Jacquie Grindrod – GitHub, XDaShaun Carter – Website, GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: DaShaun on Twitch Jacquie on Twitch Exercism’s Go Track Jacquie’s Exercism Source Jacquie’s Project Logs Go Playgorund Parti Corgi Discord Go Patterns Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Choosing a database is hard. They each have their pros and cons, and without much experience it is hard to determine which is the best fit for your project. In this episode Johan Brandhorst joins us to talk about Postgres. When is it a good fit? How well does it scale? What libraries exist in Go for using Postgres? Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Johan Brandhorst – Website, GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Ingres - the project that Postgres evolved from. jackc/pgx - Go Postgres library mentioned on the show. lib/pq - Go Postgres library mentioned on the show. Masterminds/squirrel - SQL query builder mentioned by Johan as his unpopular opinion. ory/dockertest - A tool for running tests with docker containers; useful for spinning up Postgres instances for testing. Panelist Jon Calhoun also wrote two blog posts covering topics mentioned on the show: Why do we import SQL drivers with the underscore (_) What is SQL injection? Special guest Johan Brandhorst gave a talk about Postgres and Go at GopherCon EU: A Journey to Postgres Productivity with Go Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Building a new app in Go can involve a lot of technical decisions. How will your code be structured? How will you handle background jobs? What will your deploy process look like? In this episode we will walk through the decisions made while building the public release of Pace.dev. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Datadog – Are you having trouble visualizing bottlenecks and latency in your apps and not sure where the issue is coming from or how to solve it? With Datadog’s end-to-end monitoring platform you can use their customizable, built-in dashboard to collect metrics and visualize the performance of your Go applications in real time. Start your free trial, install the agent, create a dashboard, and get a free t-shirt! Head to datadog.com/gotime to get started. Gophercises – Gophercises is a free course that will help you become more familiar with Go while developing your skills as a programmer. The course consists of 20 different mini-applications, packages, and tools that are each designed to teach you something unique about Go. Get started at gophercises.com/gotime Featuring:Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDavid Hernandez – GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Pace.dev Oto Firestore Google App Engine Operations (formerly Stackdriverf) Pace.dev talk on JS Party Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Leaning from mistakes is key to progressing. In this episode Ben, Aaron, Kris, and Jon discuss some of our mistakes - like spending too much time designing a feature that isn’t that important, or using channels excessively when first learning Go - and how we learned from them. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Datadog – Are you having trouble visualizing bottlenecks and latency in your apps and not sure where the issue is coming from or how to solve it? With Datadog’s end-to-end monitoring platform you can use their customizable, built-in dashboard to collect metrics and visualize the performance of your Go applications in real time. Start your free trial, install the agent, create a dashboard, and get a free t-shirt! Head to datadog.com/gotime to get started. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Kris Brandow – GitHub, XBen Johnson – Website, GitHub, XAaron Schlesinger – Website, GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mat Ryer talks to a new full-time Go programmer, an intern at Google, and a high-school programmer about the tech world from their perspective. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. The Brave Browser – Browse the web up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari, block ads and trackers by default, and reward your favorite creators with the built-in Basic Attention Token. Download Brave for free and give tipping a try right here on changelog.com. Featuring:Aditya Prerepa – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XBenjamin Bryant – LinkedInShaquille Que – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:What does the Go community look like from those at various beginnings in their early careers. Benjamin Bryant has recently become a full-time Go programmer and shares insights valuable to those more senior as well as those more junior. Shaquille Que recorded this episode during his very first day as an intern at Google; we learn a little about his story. Aditya Prerepa is a very proactive high-school programmer who has already started learning code to build solutions to real world problems. If you know somebody starting out in tech, why not send them this episode? Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Mat, Jon, and Jaana discuss reflection and meta programming. How do other languages use reflection, and how does that differ from Go’s approach? What libraries are using reflection well? What are some examples of bad times to use reflect? What alternative approaches exist? And what are those weird struct tags I keep seeing in Go code? Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Gophercises – Gophercises is a free course that will help you become more familiar with Go while developing your skills as a programmer. The course consists of 20 different mini-applications, packages, and tools that are each designed to teach you something unique about Go. Get started at gophercises.com/gotime Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XJaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Laws of Reflection - From the Go blog Oto - Library by Mat using AST to generate code form - Jon’s form library that uses reflect form’s without reflect - An example from Jon of creating forms without reflect Language Server Protocol - Created by Microsoft to make it easier to create autocompletion for different editors A new Go API for Protocol Buffers - A writeup of changes in protobuf to allow for a type of reflection Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!