GopherCon Europe

GopherCon Europe 2019

Last year's GopherCon Europe in the far-north (Iceland) was a great success! This year GopherCon Europe turns to the far south of the EU, the remote and volcanic coast of the Canaries, Tenerife!

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements and more!

Watch the talks from last year on our YouTube Channel

We are following the Go Community Code of Conduct

Schedule

May 30th

8:30-9:00	Registration & Breakfast
9:00-13:00	Workshops
13:00-14:00	Lunch
from 14:00	Workshops

May 31st

Time	Track 1	Track 2
8:00-9:00	Registration & Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Opening words
9:15-9:45	Opening Keynote - Cassandra Salisbury
9:45-10:00	Break
10:00-10:30	Finding Dependable Go Packages - Julie Qiu	Implementing RESTful APIs - Tom Ogoma
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:15	How I write HTTP web services after 8 years - Mat Ryer	LinuxBoot: Firmware Tools & a busybox in Go - Chris Koch
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	The Athens Project - Aaron Schlesinger	Distributed Tracing - Kevin Amuhinda
12:15-12:30	Break
12:30-13:00	API Gateway: a Success Story - Carlos, Sara	Tackling Contention : The Monster in sync.Locker - Roberto Clapis
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:30-15:00	Psychology of Code Readability - Egon Elbre	Off the Chain: Scaling Blockchain in Go - Vicki Niu
15:00-15:15	Break
15:15-15:45	Rethinking Visual Programming - Ivan Daniluk	Learn Neural Networks With Go, Not Math - Ellen Körbes
15:45-16:00	Break
16:00-16:45	Panel Discussion - The Go Team
16:45-17:00	Final Words
18:30-20:00	Social event

June 1st

10:00-11:00	Breakfast and Networking
10:00-13:00	Community Get together & Lightning Talks

Location

Hard Rock Hotel, Tenerife, Spain

Speakers

Julie Qiu

Building Modules Discovery

Software Engineer - Google
@JQiu25
Building Modules Discovery

Description

At some point, we all find ourselves wanting to use a third-party Go package in our code. This talk discusses strategies for discovering, evaluating and maintaining Go packages and modules. It also shares new tools that the Go team is building to make this process better.

Bio

Julie Qiu is a software engineer on the Go team at Google, where she is leading the project to build the Go discovery site for modules. Before Google she was already working in Go as an engineering lead at Spring to improve search performance, personalize the user shopping experience, and ingest real-time product updates at scale. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Cognitive Science.
- Twitter
Aaron Schlesinger

The Athens Project - A Proxy Server for Go Modules

Sr. Developer Advocate - Microsoft
@arschles
The Athens Project - A Proxy Server for Go Modules

Description

Go 1.11 introduced modules, the new standard package management system for Go. It’s a massive step forward for the community, especially because we can build proxy servers instead of just using Github to fetch code. Athens is leading the way to solve some painful problems we’ve had for years.

Bio

Aaron is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Microsoft Azure, creator of and core maintainer to the Athens Project. Before Athens, he was a core maintainer and chair of the Kubernetes Service Catalog special interest group (SIG-Service-Catalog) and a contributor to various other projects in the Kubernetes community. He has almost 15 years of software engineering experience and when he discovered Go around 2013, he hasn’t looked back. He lives in San Mateo, CA where he and his wife love to run up and down mountains together.
- Website
- Twitter
Chris Koch

LinuxBoot: Firmware Tools & a busybox in Go

Software Engineer - Google
@hugelgupf
LinuxBoot: Firmware Tools & a busybox in Go

Description

Come learn about how we’re replacing closed source UEFI firmware with Linux and Go! LinuxBoot replaces parts of firmware with a small Linux kernel and initramfs. Our initramfs consists of pure Go system programs such as bootloaders, and we’ll talk about our BusyBox scheme to keep it small.

Bio

Chris Koch is a Software Engineer at Google in the Security & Privacy group working on bringing open source firmware to the world and Google. Previously, he worked on gVisor, a sandbox and “kernel” largely written in Go.
- Website
- Twitter
Cassandra Salisbury

Keynote

Open Source Strategy Lead for the Go Team - Google
@cassandraoid

Keynote

Bio

Cassandra currently works on the open source strategy team at Google with a focus on developer relations, education, and the growth of Go. She is a core team member of GoBridge where she focuses on increasing diversity and mindfulness in the Go community. Cassandra is an avid karaoke fan, finds relief in stress cooking and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mat Ryer

How I Write HTTP Web Services After 8 Years

Co-founder of Machine Box - Veritone
@matryer
How I Write HTTP Web Services After 8 Years

Description

A look at how the speaker builds web services after doing so for the past eight years. Starting with testing, the talk will cover everything a developer needs to deliver working, production ready HTTP web services. Extremely practical, tried and tested patterns that everybody can start using today.

Bio

Co-founder of Machine Box, now at Veritone • Computerperson, gopher, speaker, author • him/his/tabs
- Website
- Twitter
Ivan Daniluk

Rethinking Visual Programming With Go
@idanyliuk
Rethinking Visual Programming With Go

Description

This talk is a deep dive into the topic of visual programming and demonstration of how Go has enabled a new way to think about it and build new kind of visual tools, never tried before in any other language. I’m also going to present such a tool, based on neuroscience of programming and mental maps.

Bio

Ivan Daniluk is a senior software engineer and has more than a decade of experience in writing networking software for the security market. He’s an active member of the Go community, a conference speaker (most recently at GopherCon 2016 and OSCON 2016), the host of the GolangShow podcast, and organizer of Golang meetups, the author of numerous articles about Go, and the author of a few popular projects for Gophers. Ivan enjoys helping people to learn about Go and programming and is highly interested in neural networks, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, visualizations, and new approaches to education in general. His hobbies include figure skating, the Argentine tango, yachting, and astronomy.
- Github
- Twitter
Ellen Körbes

Learn Neural Networks With Go - Not Math!

Developer Advocate - Garden
@ellenkorbes
Learn Neural Networks With Go - Not Math!

Description

Studying neural networks is a surefire way to end up fighting more math than you can shake a stick at. Wish you could learn about the likes of gradient descent and backpropagation in a language you actually understand—like Go? Then this one is for you. Code, not math! Algorithms, not logarithms!

Bio

Ellen is a developer advocate at Garden, and also an avid gopher, actively involved with Women Who Go, and responsible for the most comprehensive Go course in Portuguese. They’ve spoken at world-famous events, and at countless local meet-ups. Ellen is a proud recipient of a ‘Best Hair’ award.
- More info
- Twitter
Vicki Niu

Off the Chain! Scaling Blockchains in Go

Software Engineer - Interstellar
@vickiniu
Off the Chain! Scaling Blockchains in Go

Description

Blockchains are the hot new thing that everyone’s talking about, but nobody uses. This talk covers a key challenge in the blockchain space — scaling — through the perspective of two Go projects. Come learn about the state of blockchain scaling, and the features & limits of Go in the space.

Bio

Vicki is a software engineer at Interstellar, where she works on the Protocol team to translate cutting-edge research into real-world applications that help build a more just financial system. She studied computer science and ethnic studies at Stanford, where she co-founded the organization CS+Social Good. Vicki loves writing code, watching romantic comedies, and eating spicy food.
- LinkedIn
- Twitter
Sara Báez García

API Gateway, A Success Story (Joined Talk)

Backend Team Lead - System73
@Bz_Sara
API Gateway, A Success Story (Joined Talk)

Description

Talking about microservices we have to think about how to secure the system without losing the advantage of the decoupling and without adding too much latency. We implemented a custom API gateway. Why? Because it can easily scale, adds almost zero latency, is an ad hoc solution and it was fun!

Bio

Sara Báez is a Pythonista learning to love Go. She finished her Master’s degree in Mobile Applications but System73 showed her that “back-end” was the love of her life. She is now a proud Backend Team Lead in System73 developing a microservices infrastructure using Golang and Python while trying to be loyal to all the buzzwords such as high availability, stateless, resiliency… Chocolate addict by nature, she loves her dog the most. An active member of a women devs community @AdaLoveDev that tries to make women more visible in technology. Python Canarias organizer. She is also learning German because life wasn’t hard enough.
- Twitter
Carlos González started his career as an HPC engineer in the second more powerful supercomputer in Spain, dealing with high performance networks, storage, and scientific software. At the moment he works as DevOps engineer and Infrastructure Team Lead in System73, pushing the project in the way of continuous deployment, scalability and trying to keep best practices. On his free time enjoys running, cycling and swimming all he can. System73 has a highly talented team and is based in the beautiful island hosting this event.
- Twitter
Carlos González Vila

API Gateway, A Success Story (Joined Talk)

Infrastructure Team Lead - System73
@carlosglezvila
API Gateway, A Success Story (Joined Talk)

Description

Talking about microservices we have to think about how to secure the system without losing the advantage of the decoupling and without adding too much latency. We implemented a custom API gateway. Why? Because it can easily scale, adds almost zero latency, is an ad hoc solution and it was fun!

Bio

Sara Báez is a Pythonista learning to love Go. She finished her Master’s degree in Mobile Applications but System73 showed her that “back-end” was the love of her life. She is now a proud Backend Team Lead in System73 developing a microservices infrastructure using Golang and Python while trying to be loyal to all the buzzwords such as high availability, stateless, resiliency… Chocolate addict by nature, she loves her dog the most. An active member of a women devs community @AdaLoveDev that tries to make women more visible in technology. Python Canarias organizer. She is also learning German because life wasn’t hard enough.
- Twitter
Carlos González started his career as an HPC engineer in the second more powerful supercomputer in Spain, dealing with high performance networks, storage, and scientific software. At the moment he works as DevOps engineer and Infrastructure Team Lead in System73, pushing the project in the way of continuous deployment, scalability and trying to keep best practices. On his free time enjoys running, cycling and swimming all he can. System73 has a highly talented team and is based in the beautiful island hosting this event.
- Twitter
Egon Elbre

Psychology of Code Readability
@egonelbre
Psychology of Code Readability

Description

Much of the existing software literature that teaches how to write readable code focuses on “rules of thumb” rather than comparing and dissecting real examples of code readability. Psychology provides various concepts that allow developers to identify code that is readable versus code that isn’t.

Bio

Egon Elbre is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience. He started playing with Go just after the first public announcement and has hung around since then. He loves finding new ways of looking at code such that it would be easier to maintain, understand and, most of all, ensure that it delivers value. He strongly believes that there are explanations that help people learn and be productive faster. When he’s not neck deep in code he’s either drawing or playing the piano.
- Medium
- Twitter
Kevin Hungai Amuhinda

Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing in Go
@Hungai
Everything You Wanted to Know About Distributed Tracing in Go

Description

In the age of microservices, understanding how applications are executing in a highly distributed environment can be complicated. Looking at log files only gives a snapshot of the whole story and looking at a single service in isolation simply does not give enough information. Each service is just one side of a bigger story. Distributed tracing has emerged as an invaluable technique that succeeds in summarizing all sides of the story into a shared timeline. Yet deploying it can be quite challenging, especially in the large scale, polyglot environments of modern companies that mix together many different technologies. During this session, we will take a look at patterns and means to implement Tracing for services. After introducing the basic concepts we will cover how the tracing model works, and how to safely use it in production to troubleshoot and diagnose issues.

Bio

Hungai is a Developer Support Engineer at Lightbend and co-founder of a software automation company (Djuaji). He has more than 6 years of experience in software engineering, consulting and training and is an active open source contributor and organizer of a meetup in Nairobi. He is a data nerd and digital entrepreneur based in Nairobi, Kenya. Hungai enjoys working with Go, Scala, Rust, Kafka, Kubernetes and Spark.
- Twitter
Tom Ogoma

Implementing RESTful APIs in Go

Senior Consultant - Andela
@tom_ogoma
Implementing RESTful APIs in Go

Description

A lot of helpful tutorials are available for beginners to get their feet wet with Go, but nothing speakers like experience. In this talk, Tom will put together his learnings in Go and showcase it in a simple RESTful application, using his experience in the financial and medical spheres.

Bio

Tom Ogoma is a senior consultant at Andela, working with Mastercard labs for Financial Inclusion on projects that aim to empower the financially excluded. Before Andela, he was working on Go projects in the healthcare space to help solve challenges in the aged-care industry.
- Twitter
Roberto Clapis

Tackling Contention: The Monster in sync.Locker

Security Engineer - Google
@empijei
Tackling Contention: The Monster in sync.Locker

Description

A deep dive on contention: what is it, when is it expensive, and how to tackle it. Some light will be shed on ways to measure the computational power wasted waiting. The trace/block and pprof tools and libraries will be explained with actionable examples. After showing how to find contention issues, some handy ways to address them will be explained: Splitting work: different ways to change common algorithms to not have a centralized state. From channels to mutexes: where it makes sense to make the switch, and why. From mutexes to atomics: the real price of making this step, and how to make an informed choice about going lock-free.

Bio

Roberto is a Security Engineer at Google. He loves to write, hack, customize, patch and tailor any software that allows him to do so. Roberto has been writing go since 2015 for both structured, complex projects and scripts.
- More Info
- Twitter

MCs

Ashley McNamara
@ashleymcnamara
Steve Francia
@spf13

Workshops

Bill Kennedy

Advanced Ultimate Go
Advanced Ultimate Go

This class has been designed over the past 4 years and goes beyond just being a Go language class. There will be very little time spent on specific Go syntax. Our time will be spent learning how to read and understand Go code with a big focus of "if performance matters" then these things matter. During the day we will talk about code design, semantics, guidelines, mechanical sympathy and data oriented design.

Language Mechanics / Semantics
- - Pointers
- - Data Semantics
- - Control Flow Design
- - Decoupling Mechanics
- - Compositional Design
What a student is expected to learn

Everyone is going to be mentally exhausted by the end of the day. We will be challenging every student to think about what they are doing and why. In the 4 years we have taught this material, we never had someone not appreciate the class and feel like they are a better developer for it. If you want to be a better Go developer, code reviewer, designer and architect, this is the class you want to take.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of the Go programming language. Students do not have to be expert Go users but they will get the most from the workshop if they have completed the majority of the Go Tour.

Bio

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Labs in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.
Miki Tebeka

The Daily Go
The Daily Go

Writing code is hard, maintaining it is even harder. In this workshop we'll cover the daily tasks a typical gopher goes through (aka "best practices").

We will write together an example project and cover the following subjects:
- Design decisions
- Code structure
- Managing dependencies
- Documentation
- Testing
- Debugging
- Logging & metrics
- Performance tuning
- Continuous integration
- Deployment strategies
- Development workflow & code reviews
There will be a lot of quotes, bad jokes and lines of code.

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of Go & the command line, familiarity with git.

Bio

Miki has a B.Sc. in computer science from Ben Gurion University. Has also studied there toward an M.Sc. in computational linguistics.

Miki had worked in many companies from small startups to big multinational corporations and has written software in many areas from linkers and hardware simulators to news analysis for high frequency traders and handling big data pipelines.

Miki has a passion for teaching and mentoring. He has spent many hours giving workshops on various technical subjects all over the world, he also mentored many young developers on their way to success.

Miki wrote Forging Python, is an author in LinkedIn Learning, an organizer of Go Israel Meetup, GopherCon Israel & PyCon Israel
Elena Grahovac & Daniel Mahlow

Production ready cloud-native services with Go and Kubernetes
Production ready cloud-native services
with Go and Kubernetes

Description

It is easy to fall in love with a new programming language, tool or architectural approach, especially as it gains in popularity. Usually, we start trying new technology by understanding a "tour" or the "quick start" guidance. However, in practice, it is not always so simple to bridge the gap between our first web server and a real production-ready application, this is especially true if this application should be prepared for a cloud-native infrastructure.

What a student is expected to learn:

This workshop presents one of the possible strategies for writing cloud-native services with Go and Kubernetes. During the workshop, we will discuss how to design stable, scalable, reliable and performant applications. Step by step, we will write a service from scratch and prepare it for deployment. We will try continuous integration and continuous delivery with a prepared Kubernetes platform and discuss the benefits of this way.
- Requirements for cloud-native services
- How to structure a Go application
- Code quality
- Dependency management and immutability
- Observability
- Operability
- Containerization and security basics
- Versioning and configuration management
- Automation and CI/CD pipelines
Prerequisites:

The workshop is the most interesting for those who already started learning Go but still considers themselves as beginners.

If you would like to join this workshop as a participant, you need to install:
- A stable version Go (the newest version is recommended)
- Any IDE or editor to be able to write in Go
- Docker Community Edition (https://www.docker.com/community-edition) to build and run containers with the services
- A free GitHub account - to store and publish the source code
- A Git client configured to work with your GitHub account
- If you use Windows, please also install Cygwin (https://cygwin.com/install.htm)
During the workshop, we will also install and set up some additional tools to work with Kubernetes.

Bio

Elena is a Lead TechOps Automation Engineer at N26 and a co-host of the GolangShow podcast. With 11+ years of overall experience in IT, she values DevOps culture and passionate about automation, software architecture and site reliability engineering topics.

Daniel is a Systems Engineer & Co-founder, Contiamo. He loves solving complex problems and wearing multiple hats. After his CS studies he worked as a systems engineer in a variety of environments, from large corporates to small incubators and co-founded the data science platform startup Contiamo in Berlin, where he leads technical operations. Avid runner and VR/AR enthusiast.

Sponsorship

Google Cloud is widely recognized as a global leader in delivering a secure, open, intelligent and transformative enterprise cloud platform. Our technology is built on Google’s private network and is the product of nearly 20 years of innovation in security, network architecture, collaboration, artificial intelligence and open source software. We offer a simply engineered set of tools and unparalleled technology across Google Cloud Platform and G Suite that help bring people, insights and ideas together. Customers across more than 150 countries trust Google Cloud to modernize their computing environment for today’s digital world.

Visa Assistance Letters

We are happy to provide you with an invitation letter for the conference, in case you need one upon applying for a visa. Purchase a ticket and e-mail us the confirmation, as well as your details (full name, passport number and any other information you'd like us to list in the letter) to [email protected]. In case your visa is not approved, the full amount of your ticket will be refunded.

Student Discount

Your talent and enthusiasm could take you all the way to GopherCon in Tenerife! If you follow the next steps you can get a student discount.

Step 1. Have a valid Student Card

Step 2. Make a GitHub repo where you have used Go (for example: https://exercism.io/tracks/go)

Step 3. Send us an e-mail to [email protected] confirming you:

- have a student card that is valid at least until the conference date and

- a link to the repository

After all the steps are completed, you will receive your discount code which will allow you to buy in the reduced price. In order for the entrance to be valid, you must present your Student Card at the conference.

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