Networking and Go - An Engineer's Journey

Embark on a 45-minute journey through networking and Go in this conference talk from Strange Loop. Explore the speaker's experience at DigitalOcean, where Go's simplicity, concurrency primitives, and vibrant community proved invaluable for cloud-hosting microservices. Discover Go's applications in networking services, including DHCP servers, IP address management, and virtual switch tooling. Gain insights into building port scanners and load-balancers using Go. Learn about useful packages, key learnings, and challenges encountered while developing networking services. Understand how to leverage Go's standard library and open-source packages for implementing network protocols. Benefit from the speaker's journey in the software-defined networking team and acquire knowledge to apply Go to your own networking projects.