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**Erik St. Martin:** It was supposed to be a secret?
**Carlisia Thompson:** It was supposed to be something you discover on your own, like "Oh my gosh, there's a Gopher here! All along, for three years I haven't seen it!"
**Jessie Frazelle:** That's so cute!
**Erik St. Martin:** It's trippy, isn't it?
**Carlisia Thompson:** I had such a kick when I noticed it.
**Erik St. Martin:** I don't know, I think I see Gophers all the time, so it's like as soon as I saw the logo I saw the Gopher.
**Brian Ketelsen:** it's like going to Disneyland... "Oh, look, there's another Mickey." There's another Gopher...
**Erik St. Martin:** See, Todd's in the GoTime FM channel and he says it's not a secret. He noticed as soon as he subscribed.
**Brian Ketelsen:** See? There's no secret. You didn't screw it up, Erik. Good job.
**Carlisia Thompson:** No, it's alright.
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, so I think we're extending everything. We should probably wrap this up though. As we've already said all of our closing stuff, I guess all that's left is goodbyes, and we'll see everybody next week.
**Brian Ketelsen:** Thanks, Jessie!
**Jessie Frazelle:** Thank you for having me, this was cool!
**Carlisia Thompson:** Thanks, Jessie. This was super fun!
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, we'll have you back on when you get more into what you're doing at Kubernetes, and you can talk to us about it.
**Brian Ketelsen:** No, we're not bringing you back until you have a budget. \[laughter\]
**Jessie Frazelle:** Yeah.
**Erik St. Martin:** You have to tell us somebody's budget. If it's not your own budget, it's gotta be somebody else's. If you make one up, we won't know the difference anyway.
**Jessie Frazelle:** Okay. \[laughs\]
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright everybody, we'll see you next week.
**Jessie Frazelle:** That was fun!
**Brian Ketelsen:** Goodbye.
**Carlisia Thompson:** Bye!
• Introduction of guests Erik St. Martin, Carlisia Campos, and Nate Finch
• Nate Finch's background in Go development, starting with Juju project at Canonical
• Discussion of Juju as an orchestration platform for tying together services
• Challenges and lessons learned from working on a large-scale open-source Go project (Juju)
• Issues with testing framework and long test run times (17-18 minutes)
• Reference to previous episode discussing Gorram, a concept from the Firefly TV series
• Creation of Gorram: a Go library to prettify JSON
• Motivation behind creating Gorram: convenience and efficiency
• Gorram's functionality: working with any package in the Go path, not just standard library
• Aliases in Go 1.8 proposal: discussion on their usefulness and potential drawbacks
• Explanation of what aliases are in Go (syntactic sugar for referencing types from other packages)
• Concerns about overusing aliases and making code harder to read
• Potential abuse of new language features
• Error handling in Go and how it's different from other languages
• Explicit error handling vs implicit exception handling
• Benefits of explicit error handling in code organization and readability
• Comparison of Go's approach to error handling with other programming languages
• Crash-only software paradigm and its implications
• Error handling best practices (including panic and error wrapping)
• Stack traces in error handling
• Go 1.8 features and changes (including database SQL package, HTTP package, reverse proxy with HTTP2 support, and dynamic plugins)
• Loading Go packages as dynamic libraries
• Type safety and generics in dynamic linking
• Plugins and their benefits in software development (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Go 1.8 features and updates (GC improvement, new proposal for shorter stop-the-world pauses)
• Command line user interfaces in Go using gocui library
• Fuzzy file finder tools written in Go
• Discussion of Dave's talk on Go functions as first-class citizens
• Explanation of the act of concurrency pattern and its relation to functions
• Mention of other talks, including Bryan Boreham's "An Actor Model In Go" and Rob Pyke's Go proverbs talk
• Changes in Go 1.8, specifically the use of comparators for sorting logic
• Use cases for first-class functions in validation and sorting
• Peter Bourgon's draft spec for package management and solicitation of comments
• GoBridge's community newsletter, Go Pulse, and its sections and volunteer opportunities
• #FreeSoftwareFriday shoutouts to projects, including Kinetic, Hugo, and CNI
• GopherCon Brazil conference announced to start the next day
• Erik St. Martin's talk "Kubernetes As Seen On TV" at KubeCon mentioned
• Upcoming show skipped due to hosts' travel schedules
• Gratitude expressed for listeners, sponsors, and social media channels
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, we are back for another episode of GoTime. It is episode number \#24. Today's sponsors are stackimpact and Code School. Today on the show we have myself, Erik St. Martin, we are down one Brian Ketelsen, who is a few thousand feet above us, making his way back home. Carlisia Campos is on th...
**Carlisia Thompson:** Hi, everybody.
**Erik St. Martin:** And our special guest today is Nate Finch. How are you doing, Nate?
**Nate Finch:** Doing good.
**Erik St. Martin:** Would you like to give everybody a little background about yourself?
**Nate Finch:** Sure. I've been doing development for 16 years now, since graduating from college about four and a half years ago, right around Go 1.01, or something like that. I started looking at Go mainly as a way to not be pigeonholed as a Windows developer, because at that time I was a Windows developer, and I wan...
**Erik St. Martin:** So you were writing production Go code before most people knew about Go.
**Nate Finch:** Yeah. It was fun.