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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 347
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2024
That's Go Time!
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…
Pitching Go in 2025
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?
Unpop roundup! 2023
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
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,…
Writing a shell in Go
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
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…
Unpop roundup! 2022
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 mo…
Russ Cox on passing the torch
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 Clem…
"Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder
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
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 A…
Home automation with Go
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 alon…
The community of gophers
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 o…
⚡ Lightning Talk life ⚡
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 L…
Big shoes to fill
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 (b…
OpenAPI & API design
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 …
What's new in Go 1.23
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
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
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!
How Mat writes HTTP services in Go
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.
Dependencies are dangerous
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 depen…