Go For Java Developers

Are you a Java Developer looking to work on a Golang project? Are you looking to get involve on cloud native projects such as Kubernetes? This session is for you! This session assumes are are a Java developer and details the nuances of Go with comparisons against Java-isms.

This session will take a deep dive into Go as a language and provide details necessary to understand and write idiomatic go applications. In addition to differences in how to use the language and packaging structures, we will look at options for standard idiomatic Java. This will include:

  • Collection comparisons and what to use in Go
  • Stream processing for filters and maps
  • Packaging and encapsulation
  • Error Handling (Go 1.13 style)
  • Go formatting, style and linting

In the process, we will look at several Go projects in the Open Source space as style examples.


Ken Sipe

About Ken Sipe

Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

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