Gowestconf has 3 goals: highlight Rocky Mountain tech, get big names in the Go community into the area and make an accessible and affordable conference. Let’s chat about what we did for each of these areas. Highlight Rocky Mountain Tech: I have two main ways of getting tech companies to be represented at a…

“Move Fast and Break Things” (Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook) is the mantra of many fast-paced startups. Yet, every start-up hits a point where infrastructure and data integrity matter as much as or more than the speed of delivery. …

I was asked once after a meetup how data reliability engineers (DREs) differ from site reliability engineers (SREs). To non-data engineers, this is a hard question. At the time all I said was, “Listen to this podcast because SLOs for data are super important.”After a couple of months of studying…

Since I first started writing software in high school, I have had many software development computers and many software development environments. They were almost always someone else’s idea. I have used a variety of editors (NetBeans, Visual Studio, Notepad++, Xcode, VSCode, etc), terminals (PowerShell, Bash, zsh), and operating systems (Windows…

As software engineers we are very aware of Google’s SRE standards¹ and practices; they have infiltrated all aspects of the software engineering universe. For Data Engineers, there is constant change as the data landscape continues to evolve. “I see Data Reliability Engineering as a natural extension of the data team…

I believe the simplicity and cleanliness of the Go programming language makes it a suitable language for first-time programmers. However, things like a GoPath, Dependencies, binaries, CLIs, IDEs, and Git make it hard for someone who has never coded before to just pick up Go in their free time, so…

This is part two of a two-part comprehensive, high-level exploration of Machine Learning for software engineers. If you have not read Part 1 click here. Now that we have a decent understanding of how Machine Learning works and what it is used for, it is a good time to jump…

This is part one of a two-part comprehensive, high-level exploration of Machine Learning for software engineers. Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks are all industry-defining 2019 buzzwords. From DeepFakes to self-driving cars, we are seeing the data-harnessing power of Machine Learning. As the industry explodes with potential…