• 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