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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.