Migrating from PHP to Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Based on their experience in Curve and Cloudflare, Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd share their experience migrating from PHP to Go.

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Featuring:

• Matthew Boyle – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Chris Shepherd – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

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Chapters

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:00:40)

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3. Meet Matt & Chris (00:01:42)

4. Introducing Go (00:05:53)

5. Baseline experience (00:08:14)

6. Migration challenges (00:12:35)

7. 'Going wrong' stories (00:16:24)

8. Go sucks because... (00:24:46)

9. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:27:20)

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10. The Go philosophy (00:32:11)

11. AI (00:41:07)

12. What I like about PHP (00:48:34)

13. Unpopular opinions! (00:51:17)

14. Chris' unpop (00:51:39)

15. Matt's unpop (00:53:45)

16. Natalie's unpop (00:56:45)

17. Chris' 2nd unpop (00:57:47)

18. Outro (00:58:30)