Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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.

Episodes

That's Go Time!

December 18, 2024 • 87 mins
Mat 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. 😉
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Pitching Go in 2025

December 10, 2024 • 61 mins
With 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?
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Unpop roundup! 2023

November 21, 2024 • 38 mins
Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.
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Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go

November 12, 2024 • 57 mins
With 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.
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Writing a shell in Go

November 6, 2024 • 65 mins
Writing 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.
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AI for Observability

October 23, 2024 • 69 mins
Yasir 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.
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Unpop roundup! 2022

October 9, 2024 • 37 mins
The 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.
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Russ Cox on passing the torch

October 3, 2024 • 69 mins
In 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”.
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"Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder

September 24, 2024 • 56 mins
Tech 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?
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How I lost my (old) job to AI

September 18, 2024 • 78 mins
In 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.
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Home automation with Go

September 10, 2024 • 57 mins
Join Johnny as he dives into the world of home automation with Ricardo Gerardi & Mike Riley, two tinkerers who've taken the plunge with Go. We explore the challenges (and the fun) they encounter along the way. If you're interested in automating your home (or working with micro controllers) come learn how to get started!
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The community of gophers

August 28, 2024 • 69 mins
On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community.
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⚡ Lightning Talk life ⚡

August 21, 2024 • 72 mins
This episode focuses on the art of delivering concise Lightning Talks, a popular format at conferences worldwide where speakers present in a short timeframe. Joined by some of this year's GopherCon Lightning Talkers, we'll discuss their experiences, challenges & tips for effective communication within a limited time.
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Big shoes to fill

August 13, 2024 • 66 mins
Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something's gotta give).
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OpenAPI & API design

August 8, 2024 • 74 mins
We're talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week's episode includes a Changelog++ section that you don't want to miss.
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What's new in Go 1.23

July 30, 2024 • 66 mins
We check out the upcoming 1.23 release for new language features and improvements, including iterator functions and supporting packages.
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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 2

July 24, 2024 • 48 mins
Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the final four of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Don't miss Part 1!
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Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 1

July 18, 2024 • 46 mins
Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the first six of) his 10 "aha moments" he had reading the Go source code. Part 2 (with the rest of his aha moments) coming soon!
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How Mat writes HTTP services in Go

July 9, 2024 • 71 mins
Mat Ryer has been writing HTTP services in Go for more than 13 years. Needless to say, he's learned a lot along the way. Today, Johnny & Ian sit down with Mat to ask him all about it.
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Dependencies are dangerous

July 3, 2024 • 63 mins
Dependencies! We need them, but how do we use them effectively and safely? In this week's episode Kris is joined by Ian and Johnny to discuss the polyfill.io supply chain attack, the history of dependency management and usage in Go, and the Go Proverb that "a little copying is better than a little dependency". Of course, we wrap up the episode with some Unpopular Opinions!
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