Why Go?

[anubhakushwaha]

Abstract

I will be sharing my experience with Go, what I learned while playing around with it and how it should be atleast tried by every developer in this era where ease of deployment is one of the major goals.

About

• Why Go?

  • Reasons why a new language came into existence
  • How core concepts better/different from existing ones like threads, etc.
  • Different scenarios handled nicely by Go as compared to other langauges

• Difference between Concurrency and Parallelism

  • Scenarios to explain the difference
  • Why it is important for any developer to understand the difference between the two.

Format

• Talk Session

Pre-requisites

• Basic programming concepts

• Operating System basics

• Enthusiasm

Expected duration

40 mins

Level

Beginner

Previous Experience/Sample ppt

• Link

Speaker Bio

I am Anubha Kushwaha an undergrad from DTU who started learning Go and want others to start it too. I have started contributing to projects like go-github and kubernetes.

LinkedIn/Twitter Profile

LinkedIn
Twitter

How will it help developers/students

It will expose the budding students and professionals to Go which is one of the most popular languages these days. Further for the students it will be helpful when they will join organizations as they would have already worked upon the best way for increasing performance and ease in deployment.