Golang Workshop & Inspiration Night - Kiwi.com Tech Week

Let’s get together and share thought and experiences on the Go programming language. Join us for the Golang Workshop & Inspiration night, which will be held at EduNesto in Brno, during the Kiwi.com Techweek.

Please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/golang-workshop-inspiration-night-kiwicom-tech-week-tickets-59821649163?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-source=cp&utm-term=destsearch

The event will be kicked off by Aaron Cruz (Square bracket), who will give an intro to recurrent neural networks in the talk called "Steal This Talk". This will be followed by a workshop by Jessica Greene & Jason Gwartz (both Ecosia), who will demonstrate how to Instrument Go applications with Prometheus. Don't forget to bring a laptop, with a Go development environment set up, and Docker installed.

Schedule:
18:30 Door Open
19:00 Aaron Cruz - Steal this talk
19:30 Jessica Greene & Jason Gwartz - Instrumenting Go Applications with Prometheus
21:00 Drinks & Networking

Annotations:
Steal this talk
I like to give talks. Tragedy has hit for the past year and I haven't been able to come up with anything interesting to speak about. I had almost given up, thrown in the towel. But then I had an idea...I will build an app that will write a talk for me! It's been a long journey building "Talkie", but in the process, I've consumed 100's of Golang talks from over the last years and I want to boil them down to the best things I can fit into a half hour. We can also see how far I've come with the app. (Hint: AI is hard)

Aaron Cruz
Aaron Cruz is a food lover who speaks about Ruby, Go and Elixir at conferences and meetups around the world. For his real job, he builds chatbots for forward-thinking companies who want to reach new customers in interesting ways.

Instrumenting Go applications with Prometheus
In this workshop, we will demonstrate how developers can export monitoring metrics from their code and capture it in Prometheus. We will build upon a simple web application, using Go client APIs to track events in the code, while introducing the fundamentals of application monitoring and the Prometheus data-fetching model. Participants of the workshop will learn how to add monitoring to their own applications, and how to query and interpret the resulting data.

Participants should have a laptop, with a Go development environment set up, and Docker installed.

Jessica Greene:
Having explored careers as a camera assistant in film & television, and as a specialty coffee roaster for a renown European micro Roastery. Jessica made the decision to retrain in 2017 and add programming to her skill set. She is excited to be able to use her new skills at Ecosia and help plant trees in her favorite coffee growing regions. As a self-taught/ community taught developer she is thankful to the local tech communities who supported her in making the move into IT. She organizes events to support other women in making the move into tech.

Jason Gwartz:
Jason Gwartz is a software developer at Ecosia.org, the search engine that plants trees, where he focuses on infrastructure systems. Originally from Canada, Jason studied jazz saxophone and previously worked as a tour guide, ambulance driver, and Apple Store Genius, and has lived in London, Amsterdam, and now Berlin.