Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>Join us today for a conversation with <a href="https://twitter.com/enneff">Andrew Gerrand</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/broady">Chris Broadfoot</a> from the Go team. They will discuss with your hosts <a href="https://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc Campoy</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark Mandel</a> why Go is so successful for all the things cloud and how you can use it with Google Cloud Platform.</p> <h5 id="about-andrew">About Andrew</h5> <p>Andrew has worked on Go at Google since almost the beginning, and has written tons of blog posts and talks on Go. He spends most of his time making Go easier to use.</p> <h5 id="about-chris">About Chris</h5> <p>Chris joined the Go and Cloud teams last year to improve the experience of writing Go applications for Google Cloud Platform. Before that, he worked at Google on the Maps APIs for around five years.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <ul> <li>EVE Fanfest 2016 - Kubernetes and Google Cloud <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1HlyNSjSo">video</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="interviews">Interviews</h5> <ul> <li>The Go programming language <a href="https://golang.org">web</a></li> <li>Go on Google App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/">docs</a></li> <li>Google Santa Tracker <a href="https://santatracker.google.com/#village">web</a></li> <li>Tweak The Turkey with a Go powered Doodle <a href="http://www.google.com/logos/2011/thanksgiving.html">doodle</a></li> <li>gofmt command <a href="https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/">docs</a></li> <li>goimports command <a href="https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports">docs</a></li> <li>Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0">YouTube</a></li> <li>Bookshelf tutorial for Go on App Engine <a href="https://cloud.google.com/go/getting-started/tutorial-app">tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="https://tour.golang.org">The Go Tour</a></li> <li>Go Samples <a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples">repo</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Google Cloud Dataflow <a href="https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/">docs</a></li> <li>Google BigQuery <a href="https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/">docs</a></li> <li>MapReduce <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce">wikipedia</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="where-can-you-find-us-next">Where can you find us next?</h5> <ul> <li>We’ll both be speaking at <a href="https://events.google.com/io2016/?gclid=CjwKEAjwsMu5BRD7t57R1P2HwBgSJABrtj-RLdXJancAhPAnY5w1dvQSvdfStpL7MTr3Pf6pvdYlLRoCfS_w_wcB"> Google I/O</a> next week!</li> <li>Mark will then be at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/ChangeTheGameSummit-SF_Registration.html"> Change the Game SF</a></li> <li>Francesc will be riding the <a href="http://www.aidslifecycle.org/">AIDS/Lifecycle</a> and if you want you can <a href="http://campoy.cat/alc">donate</a>.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="the Go gopher, by Renee French" src="https://golang.org/doc/gopher/appenginegophercolor.jpg" width="250px" /> <p style="margin-top: 5px;"><i>The Go gopher, by <a href="http://www.reneefrench.com/">Renee French</a></i></p> </div>