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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
Hosted by Changelog Media · EN
Your source for wide-ranging discussions from all around the Go community. Panelists include Mat Ryer, Jon Calhoun, Natalie Pistunovich, Johnny Boursiquot, Angelica Hill, Kris Brandow, and Ian Lopshire.
We discuss cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker... oh and also Go!
Some people search for GoTime or GoTimeFM and can't find the show, so now the strings GoTime and GoTimeFM are in our description too.
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That's Go Time!
Dec 18, 202401:27:48Tap to summarizeMat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That’s right, this is Go Time’s finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won’t regret it! We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉 Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Featuring:Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XAngelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, XIan Lopshire – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe Subscribe to Fallthrough! Subscribe to The Changelog! Episodes mentioned Neurodiverse gophers (Go Time #281) Gophers Say What!? (Go Time #200) Who owns our code? (Go Time #252) Who owns our code? Part 2 (Go Time #263) Mat’s GopherCon EU diary with (Go Time #250) Maintenance podcast episodes 2053: A Go Odyssey with Ron Evans (Go Time #235) The Wu-Tang way with Ron Evans (Changelog & Friends #42) The se7en deadly sins of Go (Go Time #294) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Pitching Go in 2025
Dec 10, 202401:01:16Tap to summarizeWith so many great programming languages having emerged in the last decade, many of them purpose-built, when and where does Go still make sense and how do you make the case for it at work? Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Featuring:Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, XChristian Gabrielsson – GitHub, LinkedInJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Unpop roundup! 2023
Nov 21, 202400:38:01Tap to summarizeGo Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Featuring:chg – GitHub, XChris James – GitHub, XLea Anthony – GitHub, XOle Bulbuk – Website, GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XNatalie Pistunovich – GitHub, XIan Lopshire – GitHub, XAndy Walker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJuan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, XKaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, XJoe Davidson – GitHub, XMatthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, XDavid Wickes – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Is htmx the way to Go? (Go Time #266) Cross-platform graphical user interfaces (Go Time #271) Long-term code maintenance (Go Time #264) Experiences from GopherCon 2023 (Go Time #293) What’s new in Go’s cryptography libraries: Part 2 (Go Time #298) The solo gopher (Go Time #283) HallwayConf! A new style of conference (Go Time #276) Hacking with Go: Part 4 (Go Time #270) Diversity at conferences (Go Time #274) Go templating using Templ (Go Time #291) Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go
Nov 12, 202400:57:47Tap to summarizeWith the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you’d think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team’s journey towards a production-ready CLI. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Featuring:Wesley Beary – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: How Anchor developed a CLI and the tools that helped along the way. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Writing a shell in Go
Nov 6, 202401:05:22Tap to summarizeWriting a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Timescale – Real-time analytics on Postgres, seriously fast. Over 3 million Timescale databases power loT, sensors, Al, dev tools, crypto, and finance apps — all on Postgres. Postgres, for everything. Featuring:Qi Xiao – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Elvish shell Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →AI for Observability
Oct 23, 202401:09:22Tap to summarizeYasir Ekinci joins Johnny & Mat to talk about how virtually every Observability vendor is rushing to add Generative AI capabilities to their products and what that entails from both a development and usability perspective. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Incogni – Go to incogni.com/gotime and use code GOTIME using our link to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. Featuring:Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Unpop roundup! 2022
Oct 9, 202400:37:59Tap to summarizeThe last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021! That’s too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Featuring:Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, XNishant Roy – GitHub, LinkedIn, XInbal Cohen – LinkedIn, XMark Sandstrom – XIvan Kwiatkowski – GitHub, Mastodon, XMichael Matloob – GitHub, XEd Welch – GitHub, XMihalis Tsoukalos – XMisha Avrekh – GitHubMat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: The other features in Go 1.18 (Go Time #217) Going with GraphQL (Go Time #218) Bob Logblaw Log Blog (Go Time #220) Mastering Go (Go Time #221) How can we prevent legacy from creeping in? (Go Time #223) Answering questions for the Go-curious (Go Time #224) What’s new in Go 1.19 (Go Time #240) Avoiding bloat (Go Time #246) Stay agile out there (Go Time #247) Hacking with Go: Part 2 (Go Time #251) Debugging Go (Go Time #255) How Pinterest delivers software at scale (Go Time #257) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →Russ Cox on passing the torch
Oct 3, 202401:09:27Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin’s previous role as tech lead of the “Go core”. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Incogni – Go to incogni.com/gotime and use code GOTIME using our link to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. Featuring:Russ Cox – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XAustin Clements – GitHubCherry Mui – Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: passing torches to Austin and Cherry Go Issues Golang Weekly Proposing Changes to Go Go Bridge GopherCon Cherry’s Github Austin’s Github Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →"Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder
Sep 24, 202400:56:20Tap to summarizeTech twitter (“tech X”?) is abuzz with Paul Graham’s Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you’re not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code? Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. NordVPN – Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra at nordvpn.com/gotime It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee. Featuring:Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XAngelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: Founder Mode Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Transcribe →How I lost my (old) job to AI
Sep 18, 202401:18:24Tap to summarizeIn this follow-up to episode #306, “How soon until AI takes my job?”, the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Coder.com – Instantly launch fully configured cloud development environments (CDE) and make your first commit in minutes. No need to traverse README files or await onboarding queues. Learn more at Coder.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – The world’s leading provider of professional developer tools. Download GoLand, the complete IDE crafted for Gophers. Featuring:Sharon DiOrio – XSteven Pyle – LinkedInKent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: How long until I lose my job to AI? (Go Time #306) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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