Gopher Gala 2016 Winners

http://gophergala.com/blog/gopher/gala/2016/02/05/winners-2016/

by caser • 10 years ago

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krapht• 10 years ago

I saw the headline and immediately thought: Gopher? Do people still use that over HTTP?

Cyberdog• 10 years ago

I thought that's what it'd be about too, and was disappointed to see that goofy blue cartoon rat instead.

And yes, some people use the Gopher protocol, in the same way that some people try writing with mechanical typewriters instead of computers. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw? http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/

endgame• 10 years ago

Yeah, I was hoping for a roundup of interesting gopherspaces.

vruiz2• 10 years ago

I saw MeshBird[1] on GitHub the other day and while I haven't tried it out yet I really love the idea.

[1]https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird

Skunkleton• 10 years ago

That one also piqued my interest. I am however still trying to understand what it gets you over something like OpenVPN. Maybe it is simply an alternative?

vruiz2• 10 years ago

If I understood it correctly it would be an alternative to OpenVPN but without central server or configuration, you run meshbird on every node setting it up with a one liner.

zokier• 10 years ago

On a quick glance Meshbird seems to be closer to Tinc than OpenVPN.

mentat• 10 years ago

The idea is nice but the crypto has some gaps.

lenish• 10 years ago

For anyone else wondering, they're using AES-CBC with no MAC: https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird/blob/master/secure/cryp...

Should at least use a decent HMAC construction, but would be better to switch to AES-GCM. There's an issue filed for it: https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird/issues/4

weitzj• 10 years ago

I think this is similar to zerotier.com And this just works

nzoschke• 10 years ago

Gopher Gala was a very well run world wide event, with lots of great projects that resulted. I hope everyone had a fun time participating and learned more about Golang.

I had the privilege of judging Gopher Gala this year.

Congrats to Goad. I ranked it highly too.

I've really enjoyed how benchmarking is handled in Go. The testing library comes with tools out of the box [1], and boom is one of the first programs where I saw the true elegance of the language [2].

Goad continues this tradition by putting a sharp benchmark utility "in the cloud" which is incredibly useful for distributed testing.

The AWS Lambda bit is a really interesting backend choice. Lambda only supports NodeJS, Python and Java out of the box. But thanks to the awesome toolchain, it's trivial to compile a golang binary and stuff it in the Lambda execution environment.

It's architecture is simple and extremely powerful [3].

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/testing/#B [2] https://github.com/rakyll/boom [3] https://goad.io/assets/diagram.2205b67cd43c5d0b9cb9698b88436...

elcapitan• 10 years ago

"Thunderbird - Elegant WebSockets in Go"

Probably runs best on Alpine.

vanderZwan• 10 years ago

Gophernotes[0] looks like a great addition to Jupyter. Does it support the image package[1] for output? It's not clear from the documentation.

[0] https://github.com/gophergala2016/gophernotes

[1] https://golang.org/pkg/image/

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