github.com/graybobo/golang.org-package-offline-cache@v0.0.0-20200626051047-6608995c132f/x/blog/content/io2014.article (about) 1 Go at Google I/O and Gopher SummerFest 2 6 Oct 2014 3 Tags: conference, io, report 4 5 Francesc Campoy 6 7 * Introduction 8 9 The week of June 23rd was a good week for gophers in San Francisco. Go was a big 10 part of [[https://www.google.com/events/io][Google I/O]] on Wednesday and 11 Thursday, and on Monday we took advantage of the large gopher population to run 12 the [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/170421402/][Go SummerFest]], a 13 special instance of the [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf][GoSF]] meetup. This 14 blog post is a recap of both events. 15 16 * Gopher SummerFest 17 18 .image io2014/summerfest.jpg _ 800 19 20 On the Monday, more than 200 gophers gathered at the Google office in San 21 Francisco to hear a series of talks: 22 23 - The State of Go, ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVQm9tdncxWnJGUTQ/edit][slides]] and [[http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/state-go][video]]) by Andrew Gerrand. 24 - I was wrong, again! ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVTTUwS25qaFlzMGs/edit][slides]] and [[http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/why-we-use-go][video]]), by Derek Collison. 25 - Go at Splice ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVZklnNnJITlhSbXc/edit][slides]]), by Matt Aimonetti 26 - Quick testing with quick ([[https://docs.google.com/a/golang.org/file/d/0B-nws9GU_6qVVElmOHpwamp4aTA/edit][slides]]), by Evan Shaw 27 - Something about Go (no slides), by Blake Mizerany. 28 29 More comments and pictures from the event are available on the 30 [[http://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/170421402/][meetup event page]]. 31 32 * Go at Google I/O 33 34 On the Wednesday and Thursday, Go was at Google I/O in two different 35 formats: the Go booth in the sandbox area and the Go code labs available in the 36 code lab area and all around the world through 37 [[https://www.google.com/events/io/io-extended][I/O Extended]]. 38 39 ** The Go booth 40 41 .image io2014/booth.jpg _ 800 42 43 The Go booth was part of the Developer Sandbox area. 44 45 For the two days of the conference, some gophers from Google and other 46 companies gave a series of talks and demonstrations. The talks were not 47 recorded, but the slides and some screencasts and blog posts will be shared 48 soon. 49 50 - Organizing Go Code, by David Crawshaw. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/organizeio.slide#1][slides]]) 51 - Testing Techniques, by Andrew Gerrand. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndmB0bj7eyw][video]] and [[https://talks.golang.org/2014/testing.slide#1][slides]]) 52 - Go for Java Developers, by Francesc Campoy. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/go4java.slide#1][slides]]) 53 - Camlistore: Android, ARM, App Engine, Everywhere, by Brad Fitzpatrick. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/camlistore.slide#1][slides]]) 54 - Go Compilation Complexities, by Ian Lance Taylor. ([[https://talks.golang.org/2014/compiling.slide#1][slides]]) 55 - SourceGraph: a Code Search Engine in Go, by Quinn Slack. ([[https://youtu.be/-DpKaoPz8l8][video]] and [[https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/sourcegraph/talks/google-io-2014/gio2014.slide#1][slides]]) 56 57 58 We also organized Q&A sessions and lightning talks by members of the Go 59 community: 60 61 - [[https://twitter.com/bradrydzewski][Brad Rydzewski]] talked about his project [[https://drone.io/][drone.io]]. 62 - [[https://twitter.com/barakmich][Barak Michener]] presented [[https://github.com/google/cayley][Cayley]], an open source graph database. 63 - [[https://twitter.com/mattetti][Matt Aimonetti]] discussed how Go is used at [[https://splice.com/][Splice]]. 64 - [[https://twitter.com/ssougou][Sugu Sougoumarane]] talked about how [[https://github.com/youtube/vitess][vitess]] solved scalability problems at YouTube. ([[https://youtu.be/midJ6b1LkA0][video]]) 65 66 ** The Go code lab 67 68 This year attendees of Google I/O had a code lab area with self-service 69 computers where they could sit and learn Go. The code labs were also available 70 to anyone through the Google I/O extended brand. You can try it yourself at 71 [[https://io2014codelabs.appspot.com/][io2014codelabs.appspot.com]]. 72 73 .image io2014/collage.jpg _ 800 74 75 * Conclusion 76 77 Thanks to the organizers, speakers, and attendees who helped make these events a 78 great success. See you next year. (Or at [[http://dotgo.eu][dotGo]] this week!)