State of Go Survey and Go at Heroku

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Ed Muller from Heroku join us to discuss his State of Go survey, vendoring and versioning, the Heroku Go Buildpack, how they use Go at Heroku, and more.

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Featuring:

• Ed Muller – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Go at Heroku
• GopherCon 2015 Videos (look for Ed)
• #vendor channel on Gophers Slack
• godep
• Gophers, please tag your releases
• SemVer
• Heroku Go Buildpack
• A consistent distributed data store
• State of Go Survey results presented at GopherCon 2016

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Sourcegraph editor
• EweyGewey is an OpenGL based GUI library written in Go
• Gob: An Experimental Pure Go Web Browser
• Gogs: a painless self-hosted Git service
• Setting Up a Personal Gogs Git Server
• go get for GitHub
• Heroku Go open source repositories

Free Software Friday

• Brian - git-branches: prints the commit behind/ahead counts for branches
• Carlisia - Pachyderm: store and analyze your data using containers
• Ed - Visual Studio Code
• Erik - Kafka (Kafka on Heroku)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!