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• Use of Go in production environments with simple web services |
• Challenges of using Go for audio processing and real-time systems |
• Development of libraries for audio processing in Go to bridge the gap between Python and C |
• Comparison of Go's performance and ease of use compared to Python for audio analysis |
• The challenges of using Go for multimedia processing, including type conversion costs and missing tooling. |
• The need for basic libraries for audio and video processing in Go. |
• The potential for Go to be used for real-time multimedia processing with the help of C libraries. |
• The importance of having people motivated to write libraries for complex tasks like data science and multimedia processing. |
• Matt Aimonetti's personal experience writing his own libraries for audio and video processing and releasing them as open source. |
• The need for more freedom in the Go team to let contributors work on side projects and libraries. |
• Matt Aimonetti's recent blog post about a prison outreach program where he helped entrepreneurs-in-training with their pitches. |
• Defy Ventures' mission to give a second chance to inmates through entrepreneurship and programming skills |
• High recidivism rates in the US prison system (75-85% of inmates return to jail) |
• Success of Defy Ventures' program: 3% recidivism rate for graduates with a master's degree from a real university |
• Systemic issues in the US prison system, including racial bias and unfair sentencing |
• Importance of equal opportunities and access to resources for successful entrepreneurship and programming |
• Abstraction layers in modern life (e.g. technology) that can disconnect people and hinder meaningful relationships |
• Defy Ventures' programs are available in 23 prisons across the country |
• Importance of teaching social skills to engineers |
• Value of community service and volunteering for personal growth and team morale |
• Challenges of implementing community service in tech companies (e.g. vacation time, background checks) |
• Great American Teach-In program for parents to teach students about their work |
• Scott Lobdell's autopilot blimp project using Go on Raspberry Pi |
• Gokrazy all-Go userland for Raspberry Pi |
• Discussion on Gokrazy, a lightweight operating system for Raspberry Pi that runs Go applications |
• Features of Gokrazy, including web interface and security benefits |
• Mention of Matt Aimonetti's free online book "Go Bootcamp" |
• Explanation of Retool, a vendoring project for binaries developed by Twitch TV |
• Discussion on video processing in Go, with mentions of projects from Comcast and other companies |
• Shout-out to GitLab for their open-source community edition and alternative to GitHub |
• Shout-out to Ramya Rao for maintaining the Visual Studio Code Go plugin |
• Ramya's contributions to the Go extension in VS Code, including features like a better debugger and test generation |
• The importance of community support for her work, with 91 open issues that need help from users |
• Discussion of the Language Server Protocol (LSP) and its potential impact on IDEs |
• Comparison of Visual Studio Code's speed to other GUI editors, particularly Electron's role in optimizing performance |
• Erik St. Martin's #FreeSoftwareFriday announcement featuring React |
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright everybody, welcome back for another episode of GoTime. It's episode number 39 today. Today's sponsor is Toptal. The hosts for today's show are myself, Erik St. Martin, Brian Ketelsen is also here - say hello, Brian. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Hello, Brian. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And the lovely Carlisia Pinto. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Hi, everybody. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And our special guest for today is a speaker, author and CTO and co-founder of Splice, Matt Aimonetti. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Hi there. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Do you wanna give everybody maybe a couple-minute rundown of who you are, the things you're working on, what Splice is, for people that are not familiar with it? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah... It's always hard to know where to start, but let's start with Splice - that's probably the easiest thing. I co-founded Splice about four years ago now, and we are located in New York and Los Angeles. I'm myself in Los Angeles. GitHub is a creative hub for modern musicians. What we do is kind... |
We have some of the top producers on the platform, from Deadmau5 to the people who produced for Chainz the rapper, or even the Zootopia song that just nominated for a Grammy award, with Shakira. |
The story behind that is that I started as a sound engineer; I studied sound engineering and I did that for a few years. I worked in England, and I was traveling a lot to Asia and to a part of Europe, and coming to California. At the same time I was doing programming, and I realized "Wow, there's a really great life fo... |
At that time I was very involved with the Ruby community, contributing to Rails and working on a project called Merb. I moved to the West Coast and I became a full-time engineer, and nobody really knew about my dark past as a sound engineer until I met my co-founder in Colombia. We were at a conference together and we ... |
When you have two passions, it's hard to choose... I think with Splice I was able to bring both of them together. That's the back-story behind Splice and my involvement with it. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** You mentioned Merb a minute ago... It's amusing to be that nearly every guest we have has a background in Ruby in one direction or another. It's so funny to see -- I don't know if migration is the right word, because I don't know if everybody always leaves Ruby, but it's so funny to see the people t... |
**Matt Aimonetti:** \[04:11\] Yes, it was great. I remember the first [GopherCon](https://www.gophercon.com/), where I ended up seeing a lot of my close friends from the Ruby community that I've known for 10+ years now being around. Not everybody followed Go, and I think that's great. A lot of people also went to Elixi... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I loved Merb. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Thank you. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I was sad to see it die, or merge with whatever... |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah, we merged with Rails... We were acquired -- I don't know what the right term would be nowadays. \[laughter\] But it was a great project, I'm really proud of the work we've done. I kept on doing exciting things and used a lot of the experience with Merb to do things in the JavaScript community ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That just reminds me that we lost Ezra, Jim Wyrick... It's very sad to see those people go. We should start this show with some death and sadness. I'm so sorry about that. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, we should not... \[laughter\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** So you started Splice with Ruby...? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** No, we did not, actually. |
**Erik St. Martin:** So this is all Go? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah, it's all Go. We did have a little bit of Ruby. The technical stack is interesting... Right now we have desktop clients, we're on mobile, and obviously we have a very big web presence with web APIs. Since the beginning, I made the choice to use Go. At that time I had some experience with Go; I ... |
The day I met my co-founder, Steve Martocci, I was giving a talk about seven programming languages in 45 minutes, and I was going through the languages... I was spending a lot of time at that time, and it was Clojure, Scala and Go. Of the seven, these were the ones I was the most interested because I wanted concurrency... |
We push more than nine terabytes of data a day, we have a lot of people connected at the same time pushing a lot of data in different formats, we need to do binary processing and all those different things. Even before I started the project, I was looking at languages that would handle those kinds of challenges. My co-... |
With Ruby, for ten years I was struggling to get people to follow the same guidelines, and you could do it so many different ways to create language, but it was not giving me this direction that helps when you scale the team, going from 10 to 20 to 30 to 50 and to 200. |
When we started Splice, I decided that we would start with an entire layer of APIs and it would only be written in Go. |
\[07:50\] We started with doing the views in Rails, because it was easier for us at that point. We very quickly ended up with a Rails frontend, talking to a Go API and adding some JavaScript on top of it. That did really work out well. We didn't really want to spend too much time trying to scale the Rails layer, so we ... |
So our stack is Angular 2 with TypeScript, talking to Go APIs, and then C\# and Objective-C talking to the same Go APIs, and we are rewriting the client and we're doing a lot of Go stuff at the desktop layer. We're tackling things from a different perspective and it's very exciting. I'm really excited to show more of t... |
**Erik St. Martin:** You talked about kind of having binary analysis... Are you doing any actual audio processing? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah, we're doing audio conversion, audio processing and basic analysis. We do a lot of binary parsing and decoding at the file format. You can think of it as kind of like a Photoshop file when you save a project, and we're talking about Garageband, Logic, Ableton all these different projects, they ... |
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