forgeutah / utah-go

Utah Go Usergroup presentation slides, notes, and ideas. Open an issue for topic ideas!

This is the repo for the Utah Go Usergroup. We will post slides from presentations and links to recorded presentations.

Topic Suggestions

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utah-go's Issues

How to Evaluate that Startup Offer

A year ago I did a job search and was specifically looking at startups in Utah. Most of the companies I interviewed with were using Go for the backend and I realized the offers I got were difficult to asses what would be best. Some times the offers didn't include the information you needed to asses properly (like how many outstanding shares of the private stock exist) and other times it was trying to figure out what he total market was for the startup.

I created a process for doing this evaluation and am happy to present on what I found out.

Async Tooling

Mastering go channels and go routines is hard.
Overview of Dos, Don'ts, idioms, and anti-patterns

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API tools

REST
graphQL
gRPC

Test Doubles: Mocks vs Fakes vs Stubs

Inspired by these articles:

1. Test Doubles — Fakes, Mocks and Stubs
2. xUnit Patterns.com: Test Double
3. Testing on the Toilet: Don’t Overuse Mocks
4. Testing database interactions using Go

Explore the different types of Test Doubles and discuss practical uses for each.

Learning GO

Tools for learning GO
Learning go as your first language vs. senior in other language

Slack link on meetups site is no longer valid

Please share the valid meetup slack invite

Dependecies/modules

Dependencies are hard for those new to Go. Overview of tools, libraries, and modules. How to use GoPath. When to not have a dependency.

Testing in Go

• How to do unit tests.
• Do's and Don'ts.
• testing.T vs testing.M vs testing.B.
• How to show test coverage on you projects.
• When to stick with Standlib or use open source libraries

MicroServices

Building out microservice architecture (Maybe tools like Go-kit)

Gotchas in Go (submitted by Nathan)

Nathan submitted this on slack. It would be a great presentation on the gotchas of Go

https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-go-says-wat/

A review of all the changes that have come out in the last couple of go versions, and maybe discussion about future things

The new go proto api

https://blog.golang.org/a-new-go-api-for-protocol-buffers