Gopher Gala was a very well run world wide event, with lots of great projects that resulted. I hope everyone had a fun time participating and learned more about Golang.
I had the privilege of judging Gopher Gala this year.
Congrats to Goad. I ranked it highly too.
I've really enjoyed how benchmarking is handled in Go. The testing library comes with tools out of the box [1], and boom is one of the first programs where I saw the true elegance of the language [2].
Goad continues this tradition by putting a sharp benchmark utility "in the cloud" which is incredibly useful for distributed testing.
The AWS Lambda bit is a really interesting backend choice. Lambda only supports NodeJS, Python and Java out of the box. But thanks to the awesome toolchain, it's trivial to compile a golang binary and stuff it in the Lambda execution environment.
It's architecture is simple and extremely powerful [3].
I had the privilege of judging Gopher Gala this year.
Congrats to Goad. I ranked it highly too.
I've really enjoyed how benchmarking is handled in Go. The testing library comes with tools out of the box [1], and boom is one of the first programs where I saw the true elegance of the language [2].
Goad continues this tradition by putting a sharp benchmark utility "in the cloud" which is incredibly useful for distributed testing.
The AWS Lambda bit is a really interesting backend choice. Lambda only supports NodeJS, Python and Java out of the box. But thanks to the awesome toolchain, it's trivial to compile a golang binary and stuff it in the Lambda execution environment.
It's architecture is simple and extremely powerful [3].
[1] https://golang.org/pkg/testing/#B [2] https://github.com/rakyll/boom [3] https://goad.io/assets/diagram.2205b67cd43c5d0b9cb9698b88436...