2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

Lessons Learned Building Web Apps With Go

Tuesday, March 17
9:30AM - 10:30AM

JW Marriott
Salon B
110 E 2nd St

Presentation covering what the software engineering team at Public Good Software – a social benefit enterprise in Chicago – has learned in the process of designing, building, and deploying a large web application written in the Go programming language. I will discuss how we use Go, what tools we have built to make our development cycle faster and more efficient, and discuss how we use key features of Go to make our applications unique.

Go is a relatively new language borne of Google in 2007. It has attracted a great deal of interest from programmers of all stripes, especially disaffected web developers seeking alternatives to popular frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django. Go has experienced a significant upswing in popularity over the past 4 years: http://blog.golang.org/4years

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Presenters

Chris Gansen

VP, Engineering

Public Good Software Inc

Chris Gansen is a pretty alright guy. During the day he wrangles nerds at Public Good Software to build technology to reinvent philanthropy and civil society. Prior to that, he lead a team to build...

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Type
Solo / Dual / Panel
Theme
Design and Development
Level
Advanced
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