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NFJS2025

Golang Workshop

This workshop is for those developers who best pick up a new technology through working with it. This will be a step by step introduction of Go(lang), a new programming language developed by Google focused on today’s largest challenge in software development: concurrency!

Hands on from the start, you’ll be immersed in the language and Go idioms using the following outline:

  • Overview: Hello Go!
  • Types
  • Functions
  • Branches / Loops
  • Interface
  • Concurrency: Go Routines
  • Channels
  • Testing with Go
  • Working with Files
  • Working with HTTP

Requirements for the workshop: You will need to have git and go installed.


Ken Sipe

About Ken Sipe

Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

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