Bill Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Studio 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.

Key Takeaways

• Companies need to train internerally.
  • Put budgeting dollars for each person to go to conferences and get involved in the communities.
• Does software performance really matter? Most people would say “Yes.”
  • If that’s true, we only need Assembly language and C++.
  • It’s been more about productivity of the development team.
• Go really shines about helping software developers be really productive.
• 4 cornerstones of writing software (thinking, code reviews).
  • Integrity — Every read and write operation is consistent and accurate. Don’t corrupt data.
  • Readability — Code needs to be easily readable and understood.
    • Being able to look at a block of code and understand what its doing without really thinking about it.
    • Ability to look at code and understand the cost of that code, not layers and layers of abstraction.
  • Simplicity — To reduce the number of lines of code, it may mean giving up readability.
    • Simplicity on purpose, with data and profiling to back it up.
  • Performance — With known benchmarking and profiling.
• Google is funding this language – networking, CLI, tooling.
  • Mobile dev with Go is coming.
  • IOT is going to be sweet spot for Go.

Resources Mentioned

• HTP-54 Your Tech Interviews are Scaring Away Brilliant People with Bill Kennedy
• HTP-95 GoLang Will Make Your Plumbing Code Sexy with Aaron Schesinger
• Go in Action by William Kennedy
• Going Go Programming
• Ardan Labs
• minio.io
• Go Bridge

Contact Guest

• @goinggodotnet

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