Golang UK Conference 2015

Aug 25, 2015

On Friday the 21st of August I attended the Golang UK conference 2015 held at the amazing Brewery in London. This post is a short write up of my time at the conference.

This was my first ever conference so apart from the talks, I did not know what else to expect. Overall though, I found the conference was excellent and I met a wide range of interesting people.

Turnout

The turnout was quite big with over 250 delegates from all over the world.

Go usage

From the people I met no one was really using Go in a big way, but had an API or a small server component written in Go. However, everyone was expecting to increase there Go usage through out the coming year.

Talks

The conference consisted of 2 tracks, a main track and a side track. The talks I went to:

• Opening Keynote
• Crossing the Language Chasm
• Building API’s
• Complex Concurrency Patterns in Go
• Code Analysis
• Understanding Memory Allocation
• Whispered Secrets
• The Go Community

Out of all the talks, the best one was Code Analysis presented by Francesc Campoy.

Food :)

The food served at the conference was absoutetly amazing. Many of the delgates said that it was best food of any conference they had been to.

Fin.