Building a startup on Go
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Blake Mizerany joined the show to talk about coming to Go from Ruby, Go’s growth and adoption over the past 7 years, adopting external dependencies, building a startup on Go, and coding as CEO.

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Featuring:

• Blake Mizerany – Twitter), GitHub)
• Erik St. Martin – Twitter), GitHub)
• Carlisia Thompson – Twitter), GitHub), LinkedIn)
• Brian Ketelsen – Twitter), GitHub)

Show Notes:

Blake had to take off early from the show, so at around 20 minutes in Brian, Carlisia and Erik discuss the latest projects on their Go radar.

• Introducing Changelog 2.0)

• Blake Mizerany at dotGo 2014 — Three fallacies of dependencies)

• Cory LaNou’s Running a Go Meetup project)

• go-conv) - Conversions without using reflection across most built-in Go types through type assertion switches.

• gorram) - It’s like go run for any go function

• SummitDB) - In-memory NoSQL database with ACID transactions, Raft consensus, and Redis API

• From Matt Holt - JSON-to-Go) converts JSON to Go struct

• From Matt Holt - curl-to-Go) instantly converts curl commands to Go code

• Write React Components in Go)

• go-qemu) - Go packages to interact with QEMU using the QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)

• myLG) - an open source software utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one network diagnostic tool.

• stability-badges) - SVG badges for Go projects

• netstat) - Find out who is listening on a specific port

• lsof) - List of open files or open ports

• strace) - It’s diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!)