Ernest Micklei (Bol.com)
Ernest Micklei holds the position of Senior Software Architect at bol.com and has 20+ years of experience in Software Design, Development and Architecture. At bol.com, the largest e-commerce company of the Netherlands, he is responsible for the design and architecture of all internal and external Web Services. In addition, he is working with our operations staff to improve and investigate performance issues related to our Java-based applications and Services. He is currently active in High Performance Websites, REST services and NoSQL and is exited about Google Go. His contributions to the open-source community can be found at github.com/emicklei and emicklei.googlecode.com. Ernest blogs at ernestmicklei.com.
On the Go
This talk will be about the Google Go language and its ecosystem. It will not be a short course in Go but rather an overview of its interesting parts with respect to other languages such as Java. As concurrency is one of Go's interesting features, I intend to demo a simple program. In addition, I will talk about Go's ecosystem; the online and offline tool set, the available libraries and its development community.