Learning Go was in my TODO list for a while, and finally I did something about it. This post contains some thoughts about it… Before we start, I should familiarize you with antigen. Antigen is particularly slow. With the plugins I have, it takes an eternity to load. I saw...
Friday the 10th of July is GopherCon’s Hack Day. By popular request we’re going to be running lightning talks in main theatre most of the day.
Caddy is a unique web server with a modern feature set. Think nginx or Apache, but written in Go. With Caddy, you can serve your websites over HTTP/2.
A unique Gophercon 2015 souvenir We’re excited to announce something that we’ve been working on behind the scenes for quite a while. As a gift to GopherCon 2015 attendees who book hotel accommodation through one of our hotel partners, on check in, you will receive o...
Congo - an upcoming Conference Management Tool While we absolutely love running GopherCon, one thing jumps out as the most troublesome aspect of managing a large conference: managing the data.
At ContaAzul, we had 31 Windows machines powering our Selenium tests - one running the grid and 30 more running clients. Needless to say, this is very expensive. As we are already using Docker to run our builds (on Shippable), we decided to try it out to run Selenium tests too. I...
GopherCon 2015 tickets selling fast We’re delighted to announce that this week GopherCon 2015 ticket sales have passed the 1,000 mark! This means that there are less than a third of all tickets remaining.
Or “what the hell is this Docker thing?” Intro According to their website, Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging to...
Like my old post on git, this is somewhat a collection of useful Docker commands/tricks/whatever. Feel free to leave yours in the comments! Stop all containers $ docker stop $(docker ps -qa) ps -qa will output the CONTAINER_ID of all containers; stop will get ps -qa as input and...
We’ve just published our third and final set of speakers for GopherCon 2015. These final five speakers mark the completion of the speaking programme for 2015.