Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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.

Discussion on creating art & visualizations with Go, using tools like SVGGo. Exploring minimalistic data visualizations inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois. Community projects combat racism through visualizations. Automating interactions with LLMs using Go. AI in art, emphasizing preserving human input. Exploring Linux distributions and Mac systems.

Miriah Peterson and Bryan Boreham share insights on optimizing Go program performance by discussing profiling, resource constraints, CPU and I/O efficiency, code optimization, memory allocation, and the impact of garbage collection. They also touch on transitioning from Ruby to Go, performance bottlenecks, and controversial views on Python in data engineering.

At GopherCon EU Athens 2024, teams compete to guess how Gophers answered questions in the game show Gopher's Say. They guess favorite non-Go programming languages, common tech jobs, and favorite developer tools. Discussion on popular Go development tools, survey results, and game show winners announcement.

The podcast discusses what's new in Go 1.22 including changes in looping, updates to math/rand and Net HTTP packages, and additions to the net HTTP package. They also touch on topics such as the pricing and features of the Apple iPad, speculation on Apple's future augmented reality products, and frustrations with the lack of affordable non-intrusive technology.

Join Neil S Primmer and Benji Vesterby as they share their experience organizing Capture the Flag at GopherCon 2023. They discuss the thrilling scavenger hunt-like competition where teams collect digital flags, with the highest score winning. Topics include the importance of themes, misunderstandings in challenges, building and improving the challenge series, unpopular opinions, benefits of contributing to open source, and community support.