| • Aditya Prerepa's experience as a high school programmer and his journey into Go | |
| • Shaquille Que's path into an internship at Google, how he discovered Go, and his experiences with the language | |
| • Benjamin Bryant's accidental introduction to Go through GopherCon and his first professional Go position | |
| • The importance of having fun while learning new technologies | |
| • How students and young programmers can find and get into internships and industry experience | |
| • Mat Ryer and Aditya Prerepa discuss their experiences with Go programming language | |
| • Aditya shares his projects, including a server and Cloudflare internship program that taught him concurrency | |
| • Ben Bryant discusses his work in the payments area of tech, including interacting with different payment service providers and implementing a feature to round up donations for charity | |
| • Shaquille Que talks about writing an interpreter in Go as a personal project | |
| • Building real things as a learning approach | |
| • Aditya Prerepa's projects: fingerprint-based attendance system, order management system for grocery stores | |
| • Challenges faced in building these projects (bureaucratic hurdles, technical difficulties) | |
| • Importance of deadlines and self-motivation in completing projects | |
| • Ben Bryant's experience with teaching himself Docker and the value of having a catalyst to drive project completion | |
| • Career concerns: graduating during a recession, job market uncertainty | |
| • Current state of the tech industry and job market | |
| • Remote work and its benefits | |
| • Challenges of attending tech meetups for those new to the field | |
| • Importance of self-learning and experience through projects | |
| • Value of mentorship in learning and career development | |
| • Technical education in high school, specifically computer science classes | |
| • Lack of CS program at the speaker's school | |
| • Finding mentors through internships and online connections | |
| • Comparison between hobbyist and formal programming education | |
| • Discussion on the ease of installation and use of Go language | |
| • The transition from GOPATH to Go modules in Go development | |
| • Favorite features of the Go language, including select and choosing from channels | |
| • Standardization of style in Go | |
| • Goroutines and channels for concurrency | |
| • Importance of formatting consistency in code | |
| • Learning and career paths: importance of finding one's own way | |
| • Motivation for continued learning and contribution to a field: love of the work vs. external factors | |
| • The importance of retaining childlike wonder and curiosity in learning | |
| • Balancing asking for help with respecting others' time and workload | |
| • Effective communication and having open conversations about how to work together | |
| • Adapting to changing needs and preferences over time | |
| • The potential obsolescence of REST protocols in favor of newer, more efficient alternatives like gRPC | |
| • Introduction to gRPC and its speed benefits | |
| • Comparison of REST and gRPC protocols | |
| • Binary protocol nature of gRPC vs text-based REST | |
| • Future-proofing API design with gRPC's numbering system | |
| • Adoption and use cases for gRPC in microservices and cloud services | |
| • Challenges in switching from REST to gRPC due to legacy systems and client libraries | |
| • The role of Envoy and gRPC Gateway in facilitating adoption and integration with REST | |
| • Considerations for choosing between gRPC and REST based on project needs and complexity | |
| • Discussion on London Gophers meetup being considered one of the best Go meetups | |
| • Update issues with Go versions and the manual process required | |
| • Aditya's project, Coding Tomorrow, teaching fifth-graders how to code in Python | |
| • Aditya's other project for group addiction therapy platform using Zoom-like technology | |
| • Advice on bootstrapping side-projects into income-generating endeavors |