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**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, what else do we have? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** DigitalOcean just released a library called go-qemu, and I've never known how to pronounce qemu, but it allows you to interact with the virtual machines from Go. You can launch VMs from either the host machine or over TCP across the network. You can start them, stop them, get information about them.... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, interesting. I have not seen that at all. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's interesting to me, because I have been looking at ways to spin up VMs really quickly, and what timing! |
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, so that is now in one of my many tabs. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[laughs\] Yet another tab. It's like a to-do list that never dies. |
**Erik St. Martin:** One thing I did wanna touch on too is a new repo that Cory LaNou has been working on, which is kind of like this recipe for starting a Meetup group. I think that's really awesome, because we really need more of these happening around the country. It's great to share our knowledge and to get more pe... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Where's the repo for that? |
**Erik St. Martin:** I will drop it in the GoTime FM channel. It's [corylanou/go-meetup](https://github.com/corylanou/go-meetup) |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Awesome. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yes, this repo is really fantastic. I haven't seen better suggestions for running a Meetup than here. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** No, it's really the Meetup bible. I pointed somebody at it maybe two days ago. It's good stuff. Go, Cory! |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I might need to help expand this too, because I've had a goal since 2014, maybe even a little earlier, to consolidate a lot of the lessons learned that Brian and I have learned from organizing conferences too, and maybe help people with a recipe to start smaller regional events to help. More ... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Now that I'm looking at it, just one comment I have for you Cory - I know you are on the Slack right now... Not every Meetup has to be people presenting. For example, the Meetup we do in San Diego, we don't do presentations; we get together and code as groups, and that is amazing. Everybody loves... |
**Erik St. Martin:** I think Brian and I are guilty of that too, because the Go Tampa Meetup... I don't think we've had a Meetup in a while, and it's mainly because we feel like it's hard to prepare presentations; we're always so busy, so trying to make the time to create presentations gets difficult, and then we don't... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[36:10\] And I stand corrected - there is a section on that repo that talks about options other than having speakers. And I agree with you, Erik. I see people struggling to find speakers sometimes, so it's nice to know that you can do other things as well. |
**Erik St. Martin:** We had a Ruby Meetup here that was doing a really cool thing. I forget what frequency they were doing them on, but basically what they would do is they would pose a small problem, almost like the exercism.io problems, and everybody would submit them anonymously to the Meetup organizers, and then in... |
It was actually a really cool idea. It wouldn't be bad to try that in the Go world too, where people submit even exercism.io problems and we get together in person and talk about it. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's a great idea. When we talked to Katrina, she mentioned that one of the things that she really needed was reviewers, so we could actually do a Reviewathon as a Meetup topic, and sit down together and use groupthink to think about the best way to attack a problem. |
**Erik St. Martin:** That's true... Not even have to have their own submission; just collectively, as a group, review other things. That's cool. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, that's a good idea. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** With Exercism you do have to do a submission for the exercise before you are able to comment on that exercise, so at least one person would have to. But I also see the benefits of everybody working on the exercise, submitting it and then doing a review. This person can add comments separately, bu... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, that's a great a idea. I like this. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, just have everybody who's showing up as a prerequisite to submit this. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** But you can also do that during the Meetup, because a lot of times we don't feel motivated... "Oh, that's an extra thing that I have to do", but if you're in a Meetup with a group of people and everybody is doing the same thing, it's more motivating. Just a thought. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** A good one. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, definitely something to play with. Alright. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I found another package that I bookmarked... I'm just going through my GitHub stars to remind me of interesting things. This one is called go-conv, and it's by cstockton on GitHub. It does reflection list conversions from Go's native types. You can convert a byte array to a string, or the word "true... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I saw the headlines for that... Can we get a link please, Brian? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yes, I will drop it in the Slack. It's github.com/cstockton/go-conv. It looked interesting. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I have to take a look at that, and think of use cases where I don't typically just use strconv, or whatever. Everybody has different pronunciations of these standard library packages. I'd love to get a list of just... Because you don't really say these things, right? Everybody now knows it's ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[40:15\] I don't think everybody knows that still. The 1,500 people at GopherCon were all shocked the first time they heard that. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I think people call it stirconv... I used to pronounce it string. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I don't know... I 've had several strange moments where people pronounced package names and I thought, "I don't say it that way..." \[laughter\] |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I will never forget the first time I heard fumt, it was from Katrina, and I was stumped. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** You were stumped by fumt? \[laughter\] |
**Carlisia Thompson:** It was pronounced fumt. I'm like, "Really?" \[laughs\] I would never guess. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I'm with you on that one. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Also, I don't think that it would be an episode of GoTime without me mentioning another database that I have found written in Go. This one's called SummitDB. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Oh, I saw that. |
**Erik St. Martin:** It looked like it was built on top of BuntDB, which I think we may have mentioned before on the show. It's basically backed by a Raft consensus algorithm, but it has wire compatibility with Redis. Some of the cool things with it is spatial indexing, and that tends to be something that I look at a l... |
I think it uses Otto, which is a... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** ...JavaScript interpreter? |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, and you can bridge between JavaScript and Go, and I think that's how they're using it for queries under the hood. In my defense, I have not dug in too deep, but I knew that it does have Redis compatibility too, so I think that's really cool. And it's all in memory. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, that's pretty slick, and they claim ACID compliance, which is interesting. I wonder how fast it is, if it's got Raft and ACID at the same time. Those two together sound kind of mutually exclusive. Fast + Raft? You have to have consensus between machines, but you're getting consistency and an A... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Right. For anybody who's listening live, there's two ways you can get these links... We tried to do our best while we're talking about these things to either drop the link in the GoTime FM Slack channel, and on Twitter. So if you're following along on either of those, you should be able to find the... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** @GoTimeFM on Twitter? |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yes, @GoTimeFM. Okay, so I think that it's about time for another sponsor break. What do we have? |
**Break:** \[43:06\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** But still, regardless of the history of Code School and who now owns it, their training has always been really cool. I've just pulled up their site too, and they've got a bunch more training stuff, like Surviving APIs with Rails, Rails for Zombie Outlaws... |
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