Open Sourcing Chain's Developer Platform

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Tess Rinearson joined the show to talk about Chain launching their open source developer platform, choosing an open source license, open sourcing Chain Core, and the future of this powerful blockchain written in Go.

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Featuring:

• Tess Rinearson – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Chain Launches Open Source Developer Platform
• Chain Core on GitHub
• Chain Core docs
• Chain Protocol Whitepaper
• GNU Affero General Public License
• Choose an open source license
• Stochastic flame graph profiler for Go programs
• Visa’s Blockchain Bet Opens Up to Developers
• Tess on Medium

Interesting Go Projects and News

• A code review dog who keeps your codebase healthy
• Go 1.8: assume GOPATH=$HOME/go if not set

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- The Go Tour and a shout out to Andrew Gerrand
• Erik - A command line tool to view namespaces and cgroups, useful for low-level container prodding
• Carlisia - Listing of open source projects that have issues labeled with Help Wanted

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!