Presentations

Slides and code from Edmonton Go meetups, newest first. Each talk links to its folder in the edmontongo/presentations repository, where you can browse the slides and demo code.

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2026

September 2026 Go Meetup

• Unbounded Concurrency

June 2026 Go Meetup

• Software Bill of Materials (SBOM): What it Is? Why Does it Matter?

February 2026 Go Meetup

• Using Go for Scripts

January 2026 Go Meetup

• Deduplicating data with content-defined chunking

2025

November 2025 Go Meetup

• Go for Web Development

October 2025 Go Meetup

• Go Interfaces

September 2025 Go Meetup

• Benchmarking Redo
• How RSA keys work

August 2025 Go Meetup

• Go 1.25 Release

July 2025 Go Meetup

• Hello, World! Your first Go program
• Go Todo

June 2025 Go Meetup is Back!

• Why Go?
• Why Not Go?

2022

February 2022 Online: Go 1.18 New Features

• Go 1.18 New Feature: Generics

2021

April 2021 Online: Google Cloud Functions

• Google Cloud Functions

February 2021 Online: Error handling discussion

• Error Handling discussion

January 2021 Online: Four Go-to packages

• Four Go-to Packages

2019

September 2019: Challenge

• What's New in Go 1.13
• Challengs

May 2019: Serverless

• Go Func Yourself! A brief introduction to serverless Go

April 2019: Deployment discussion

• Go and Docker

March 2019: functional

• Functional Go: How well does Go Support Functional Programming?

January 2019: Go and Node

• Go and Node.js: A comparison

2018

Go for Web Developers Workshop Part II

• Workshop

Go for Web Developers Workshop Part I

• Workshop

September 2018: testing

• Unit Testing Code with Hard-to-Mock Dependencies

August 2018: Go 1.11

• Go modules quick overview

July 2018: Hugo

• What's new in Hugo

June 2018: Community

• Discussion

February 2018: lightning talks and coding practice

• Lightning Talks
• Coding Practice

January 2018: functional errors

• Functional Options Pattern
• To err is human

2017

November 2017: Concurrency

• Concurrency in Go: An Introduction to Channels

September 2017: Go Experience

• gotest in color

August 2017: Go 1.9 & SQL

• Intro to database/sql

June 2017: Error log

• Structured logging
• Effective error handling

May 2017: Generation dep

• Code Generation
• dep

April 2017: Reactive

• Reactive Programming in Go

March 2017: Concurrency

• Goroutines
• Un-Paralleled Concurrency
• The atomic package

February 2017: Go 1.8 Release Party

• HTTP Server Graceful Shutdown
• The default GOPATH
• sort.Slice
• database/sql context
• What's Next for Go

January 2017: Interfaces and Protocol Buffers

• Interfaces in Go
• Protocol Buffers and gRPC in Go

2016

November 2016: Concurrency and GOPL

• Coding for Concurrency: Processes, Threads, and Goroutines

October 2016: Barriers

• Barrier Pattern in Go (with Context)

May 2016: App Engine, Stateful Messaging

• Google App Engine
• Stateful Messaging

April 2016: Testing

• Testing concurrent things

March 2016: Web apps

• Shopping is hard, let's build a web app

February 2016: Go 1.6 release party

• What's new in managing third-party dependencies?
• What's new in cgo?

2015

November 2015: Job queues

• Messaging patterns and job queues in Go

September 2015: gorename and FFI

• gorename - how the sausage is made

August 2015: Reflection and SDN

• Introduction to Reflection
• Software Defined Networking

July 2015: GopherCon recap

• Command line user interfaces

February 2015: Gala Postmortem & Databases.

• Go and Databases

2014

September 2014: Docker, Templates, Packages.

• HTML Templates

July 2014: Hello Go, Movie Night.

• Hello Go

March 2014: Testing, Delegation & C.

• Testing in Go: What You Need to Know
• Composition & Delegation
• Go's Secret C Interface

February 2014: Interfaces & Iterators

• Duck Hunt: Interfaces
• Iteration in Go

2014-01

• Celsius: Types Are Cool
• Concurrency Is Not Parallelism

Slides and demo code live in the edmontongo/presentations repository. Spotted a missing talk? Add a presentation link to the relevant meetup page.