Agenda
6:30 Networking | Food | Drink
7:00 Speakers
Talk 1: Reducing Boilerplate through Code Generation
Talk 2: A Deep Dive on Go Concurrency :Unshooting Your Independently Moving Feet
Talk 3: Building a Performance Monitoring Product (almost) Entirely in Go
8:30 End
Talk 1:Reducing Boilerplate through Code Generation
Tejas Manohar is an engineer on the Warehouses team a Segment. Hes excited about the intersection of distributed systems & data infrastructure.
About the Speaker
Tejas Manohar was a Node.js enthusiast in a past life, helping maintain popular modules like node-schedule & koa. Nowadays, he fancies Go for most everything from OS X hacking to static site generators.
Talk 2: A Deep Dive on Go Concurrency: Unshooting Your Independently Moving Feet
Anthony Voutas will do a deep dive on Go concurrency.He will examine concurrent Go code that looks correct to the untrained eye, but can cause havoc outside a sandbox.
He will show how seemingly small changes in code can have big impacts & explain what continuous integration & testing best practices can keep you safe & out of the concurrent weeds.
About the Speaker
Anthony Voutas is the first engineering hire at Backplane, where he focuses on security & site reliability. Backplane is on a mission to make networks powerful & trivially easy to manage.Prior to Backplane, Anthony architected, built, & maintained PKI solutions at a security startup working with the Australian Government. He has used Go professionally for the past three years. When Anthony isnt working, he can be found honing his improvisation skills with his troupe Stunt Dad.
Talk 3: Gophers All The Way Down: Building a Performance Monitoring Product (almost) Entirely in Go
In this talk, Chris Haupt from New Relic will be your tour guide in his team's journey of building a modern performance monitoring SaaS product, constructed on a solid foundation of Go-based services, tools, & on-host data gathering agents.
Chris will address the evolution of the project, some of the key gotchas along the way, & where Go helped or hindered the team's efforts.
About the Speaker
Chris Haupt is the Director of Engineering for the SF-based team building New Relic Infrastructure, a product that helps modern IT Ops organizations address performance, analytics, & monitoring within large dynamic infrastructures. While he is still the Organizer for the Sacramento Ruby Meetup, his conversion to Go has been mostly painless.
About the Host
New Relic is a leading digital intelligence company, delivering full-stack visibility & analytics with more than 15,000 paid business accounts. The New Relic Digital Intelligence Platform provides actionable insights to drive digital business results.
Companies of all sizes trust New Relic to monitor application & infrastructure performance so they can quickly resolve issues, & improve digital customer experiences. Learn more at newrelic.com.
