GopherCon UK

🎉 Your wait is over. Our 2025 recordings are LIVE! 💪 It's time to revisit the incredible sessions we had at GopherCon UK this year. Every keynote, every session, every track. All available right now on our YouTube channel. So just one question left to ask. Which one are you…

Ever wondered what it actually takes to build an AI coding agent from the ground up? 🤖 The closing keynote from GopherCon UK 2025 is here to demystify the magic: "Building a coding agent from scratch"! 🏗️ 🧠 In this live-coding session, Bill Kennedy (@goinggodotnet), Managing…

⚙️ Did you know that a simple "Hello World" in Go results in a 2MB binary? What exactly is taking up all that space? We have a comprehensive exploration of the compiler's output from GopherCon UK 2025 to share: "Deep Dive into a Go Binary"! 📦 🔍 Jesús Espino (@jespinog) guides…

⚙️ Did you know you can turn your standard go build command into a fully programmable pipeline? We have a fascinating technical session from GopherCon UK 2025 to share: "Unleashing the Go Toolchain"! 🚀 🛠️ Kemal Akkoyun (@kakkoyun_me) demonstrates how to use the -toolexec flag…

Does setting up observability for your Go services feel overwhelming? 👀 🧩 Here is a comprehensive breakdown from GopherCon UK: “Observability Made Painless: Go, Otel & the LGTM Stack.” Haseeb Majid demonstrates how to instrument a real Go application with OpenTelemetry to…

How much time do you really spend on business logic versus wrestling with infrastructure? 🤔 Ainsley Clark (@ainsleydev), Senior Software Engineer at Just Eat, might have the blueprint to your solution in his GopherCon UK 2025 talk: "How Just Eat uses tooling to deploy Go…

Are your Go dependencies becoming a tangled mess? 🧹 Time to spotlight another excellent talk from GopherCon UK: "Go Module Hygiene: Keeping go.sum and go.mod in check." ✅ 🔎 In this practical session, DevOps and Software Engineer Emily Achieng dives into the unsung heroes of…

Building a Producer–Consumer Pipeline in Go Using Goroutines and Channels #golang dev.to/lovestaco/buil…

Ready for a technical breakdown into Go's Swiss Map implementation? ⚙️ Time for another fascinating session from GopherCon UK 2025: "Swiss Maps In Go"! 🇨🇭 🚀 Bryan Boreham, explains the powerful implementation behind Go's map type. The session breaks down how ingenious…

Curious how Kubernetes CPU limits impact your Go service's performance? ⚙️ Another in-depth session from GopherCon UK 2025 is coming at you: "K8s CPU Limits Deconstructed"! 🧩 🧠 In this talk, your guide is the one and only Bill Kennedy (@goinggodotnet), Managing Partner at…

Ready to turn Vibe Coding from a chaotic experiment into a disciplined engineering practice? ⚙️ Daniela Petruzalek's (@danicat83) talk "A Gopher's Guide to Vibe Coding" at GopherCon UK is a great place to start. 🛠️ Daniela shares the experience of building a real-world Go tool…

What does it take to survive a full cloud provider outage? 🛡️ Time to explore another impactful keynote from GopherCon UK 2025: "When Failure is Not an Option: Surviving Cloud Outages in Go"! 💪 ☁️ Kevin Holditch, VP of Engineering at Form3, gives an in-depth breakdown of how…

How do you turn your Go functions into tools for an AI? 🛠️ Time to highlight a fantastic keynote from GopherCon UK 2025: "Hello, MCP World!" 🌎 🤖 In this insightful guide, Google's Daniela Petruzalek (@danicat83) introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard…

"What kind of abstractions are unnecessary?" 🤔 Senior Engineer at CrowdStrike, John Cinnamond, tackles this question in his thought-provoking GopherCon UK 2025 talk: "The Right Kind of Abstraction"! 🎯 💡 This isn't a simple list of dos and don'ts. Instead, John offers a…

Ready to level up your Go concurrency skills? ⚙️ 👀 Then you’ll want to see this session from GopherCon UK 2025: "Deep dive into the sync package". 🔄 Jesús Espino (@jespinog), Principal Engineer at Ona (formerly Gitpod), takes us under the hood of Go's most essential…

Ready to optimise your Go memory management? 🚀 Let's dive into another GopherCon UK 2025 gem: "The Strengths of the 'weak' Package: Weak Pointers Arrive in Go"! In this deep dive, Sam Burns (@sam_burns_tech) explains how Go's weak package unlocks a new level of efficiency.…

What happens when Go meets the physical world? 🚪 Find out in our talk released from GopherCon UK 2025: "Opening high traffic access points using Go"! Nando's Software Engineer George Kampanos shares his journey building a complete member management system for a small gym, from…

Is latency slowing down your Go applications? 🚀 Up next from our GopherCon UK 2025 series, we're sharing "The Quest for Speed: Journey to 50% Better P99 Times with Go!" This session reveals how @loveholidays enhanced the speed and efficiency of their platform at scale.…

Get the whole scoop on Form3's multi-cloud approach from VP of Eng Kevin Holditch via his great talk at @gopherconuk youtube.com/watch?t=593&v=…

I keep saying I’ll retire from public speaking, but every time I watch one of my talks I realise there’s so much more on the topic I need to get out of my head. Pretty much the same content turned into a 3 hour workshop at @GoLab and I suspect a full-day workshop is on the cards.

Ready to leverage the full power of the UNIX environment in your Go applications? 🐧 💡We're excited to share another standout presentation from GopherCon UK 2025: "A Gopher's Guide to the UNIX-verse" with Eleanor McHugh! @feyeleanor ⚡️ This talk dives into the core philosophy…