Introducing your team to Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Can’t find a job working in Go? Perhaps introducing your current team to Go is the solution. In this episode we talk about how Go was introduced at different organizations, potential pitfalls that may sabotage your efforts, some advice on how to convince your team and CTO to use Go and more.

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Featuring:

• Chris James – Twitter, GitHub
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Learn Go with Tests by Chris James
• Go By Example
• Go Jobs posted on Twitter - A Twitter account mentioned in the Gophers Slack during the episode.
• Inception (movie) - Mat jokes referring to the movie briefly.

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