CockroachDB and distributed databases in Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Andrei Matei joined the show and talked with us about CockroachDB (and why it’s easier to use than any RDBMS), distributed databases with Go, tracing, and other interesting projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Andrei Matei – GitHub
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• CockroachDB
• Learn to create web apps using Go (affiliate link)

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Interesting Go Projects and News

• Agones
• Introducing Agones: Open-source, multiplayer, dedicated game-server hosting built on Kubernetes
• memviz
• gorush
• Saloon – Go Forums

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Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Brian - GitPitch

Andrei - OpenTracing + govet

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!