
Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
Your source for wide-ranging discussions from all around the Go community. Panelists include Mat Ryer, Jon Calhoun, Natalie Pistunovich, Johnny Boursiquot, Angelica Hill, Kris Brandow, and Ian Lopshire.
We discuss cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker... oh and also Go!
Some people search for GoTime or GoTimeFM and can't find the show, so now the strings GoTime and GoTimeFM are in our description too.
Latest episodes

Sep 15, 2017 • 1h 7min
Presenting a Pragmatic Perspective
Cindy Sridharan joined the show to talk about development and operations as a generalist, leveling up as an engineer (while still providing business value), challenging the status-quo, and other interesting Go projects and news.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
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Featuring:Cindy Sridharan – XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:Monitoring and Observability
Small Functions considered Harmful
Everyone is not Ops
Cindy Sridharan on Medium
Interesting Go Projects and News
Community Outreach Working Group
Go 1.9 out of RC
Running Go on Low Memory Devices
realize
Shell completions in Go
Go Assembly by Example
DARE (Data At Rest Encryption)
Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - Minio
Cindy - Envoy
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 8, 2017 • 1h 4min
Container Security and Demystifying Complexity
Liz Rice joined the show to talk about containers, cloud security, making complex concepts easier to understand, and other interesting Go projects and news.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:Liz Rice – Website, GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:kube-bench - CIS Security Benchmark implementation for Kubernetes
manifesto - Manage container metadata alongside (but separate from) the container image
Aqua Security
My first Alexa custom skill
Interesting Go Projects and News
powerline-go
jaeger - Open Tracing in and for Go (and others)
expanderr - expands the Go Call Expression under your cursor to check errors (emacs only for now)
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Azeria (related: Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics)
Brian - Unison
Liz - Istio
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 31, 2017 • 51min
Dep, Cross-platform, and Getting Started
Carolyn Van Slyck joined the show to talk about dependency management, upping your cross-platform game, getting into Go, and other interesting Go projects and news.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:Carolyn Van Slyck – Website, GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:GopherCon 2016: Carolyn Van Slyck - Grow your users from an unlikely source: Windows Developers
Go dependency management tool
Interesting Go Projects and News
RustGo: Calling Rust from Go with Near-zero Overhead
Go 1.9 Release Candidate 2 is released
go-prompt
kube-prompt
GoWorld
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Brian - Cobra
Carolyn - Safia Abdalla
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 18, 2017 • 1h 15min
Go at Walmart (and Scale)
Chase Adams joined the show to talk about working on distributed systems with distributed teams, giving people opportunities to learn and grow, and other interesting Go projects and news.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:Chase Adams – Website, GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:chaseadams.io
Walmart Labs
Building planes in the sky
Volvo Trucks - The Epic Split feat. Van Damme
Chuck Norris - Epic Christmas Split between Two Planes
Interesting Go Projects and News
faas (Functions as a Service)
Go 1.9RC2
go-tracing (swiss company, got Go training from Mark Bates)
Transcripts available for our podcast! Awesome work by Changelog crew!
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Jesse Frazelle - Am I Contained?
Brian - iTerm2 by George Nachman
Carlisia - All the women in tech who persevere!
Chase - GitLab, Org mode, Ramya, Dominik, and Fatih
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 18, 2017 • 54min
GopherCon 2017: A Retrospective
After taking some time to recover, the gang rehashes all the greatest talks and favorite moments from this year’s GopherCon. Much love to the Go community and all the souls who worked tirelessly to make this conference happen.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:Erik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:GopherCon 2017 videos playlist
Links to all the slides and videos, separated by talk
GopherCon 2017 Lightning talks playlist
GopherCon Singapore 2017 videos
And remember: if you need an invite to the Gophers Slack channel, go to invite.slack.golangbridge.org
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 7, 2017 • 55min
All About The Go Compiler
David Chase joined the show for a technical Q & A on compilers and what makes Go’s compiler different from the rest (and of course, other interesting Go projects and news)
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:David Chase – GitHub, Mastodon, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XAshley Willis – GitHub, XShow Notes:dr2blog (David’s blog)
Interesting Go Projects and News
Go’s work-stealing scheduler (great article on the scheduler from JBD)
New book - Concurrency in Go by Katherine Cox-Buday
Oak - game engine in pure Go
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Ashley - Brian & Erik (for managing GopherCon, which was awesome)
Carlisia - JBD! (https://rakyll.org/archive/, GoTime Episode #22)
Brian - Dave Cheney
Dave - The MacPorts Project
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 19, 2017 • 1h 10min
Infosec research and app security
Aaron Hnatiw joined the show to talk about being a security researcher, teaching application security with Go, and a deep dive on how engineers and developers can get started with infosec. Plus: white hat, black hat, red team, blue team…Aaron sorts it all out for us.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:Aaron Hnatiw – GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:Aaron blessed us with a veritable slew of links to help Go developers level up their security game:
Go Meta Linter
Go AST Scanner
SafeSQL
Race-The-Web (Also check out the accompanying practice site)
Go-fuzz (Check out their trophies section)
Gryffin
Webseclab
Gobuster
Input-field-finder
OWASP Top 10: (Counterpoint - Vulnerabilities beyond the OWASP Top 10)
SSRF as a Service: Mitigating a Design-Level Software Security Vulnerability
Interesting Go Projects and News
Fencing off Go Applied - A Practical Look at a Go Research Paper
Go 1.9 Release Notes
GoRef (v. similar to trace)
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - K8GUARD (The guardian angel for Kubernetes)
Carlisia - Goman
Brian - WSLtty
Aaron - Visual Studio Code (with the Go plugin, of course)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 6, 2017 • 1h 8min
Bringing Kubernetes to Azure
Kris Nova joined the show to talk about developer empathy, running K8s on Azure, Kops, Draft, editors, containerizing odd things…and what it’s like to play a keytar.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Featuring:Kris Nova – GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XShow Notes:
Kris Nova - Nivenly.com
Kubernetes Operations (kops)
Draft: Streamlined Kubernetes Development
Interesting Go Projects and News
Gotham Go CFP Open
GopherCon China videos (most in Chinese)
https://github.com/kshvmdn/fsql
Go-vim 1.13
goplay.space - Go playground frontend written in gopherjs/vecty - super cool!
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - CNI-Genie
Brian - Florin Patan (@dlsniper everywhere)
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 13, 2017 • 1h 4min
Adventures in VS Code
Ramya Achutha Rao joined the show to talk about all the things that make VS Code a great editor for writing Go, getting help from the community, plus other interesting Go projects and news.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
Featuring:Ramya Rao – GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XCarlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Visual Studio Code (latest version notes)
vscode-go
VS Code Insiders
vscode-go wiki
Ramya on GitHub
Interesting Go Projects and News
Neovim GUI written in Go
Draft: Streamlined Kubernetes Development
GopherCon SG videos released
Gophercon Lightning Talks
Higher Performance Go with Go Assembly from FOSDEM
Justforfunc episode “a Text to Speech server with gRPC and Kubernetes”
“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”
Kelsey Hightower’s very vulnerable keynote speech at DevOps Days Austin
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Carlisia - JBD (see also: Go Time #22 w/ JBD)
Johnny - q - Quick and dirty debugging output for tired Go programmers
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 1, 2017 • 56min
Restic and backups (done right)
Alexander Neumann joined the show to talk about using Go to write backup software, solving tough problems like deduplication, scratching your own itch, and other interesting Go projects and news.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner! Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
Featuring:Alexander Neumann – Website, GitHub, XErik St. Martin – GitHub, XBrian Ketelsen – GitHub, XAshley Willis – GitHub, XShow Notes:Restic - Backups done right!
Chunker - Implementation of Content Defined Chunking (CDC) in Go
Interesting Go Projects and News
GopherFest 2017 Videos
Go 1.8.3 released
Francesc - State of Go
“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” | “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”
Kelsey Hightower’s very vulnerable keynote speech at DevOps Days Austin
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Ashley - Kelsey Hightower
Erik - Brendan Gregg
Brian - barista (i3 status bar written in Go!)
Alex - rofi + rofi-pass
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!