DevOps

Presenters Ali Hasan Syed Source Gophercon India 2025 Go’s Evolution: A Deep Dive into Performance Bottlenecks and How They Were Solved 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wonder how programming languages actually evolve? It’s not just about adding new features; it’s about constantly refining and optimizing what’s already there. Ali Hassan’s recent presentation gave us a fascinating look under the hood of Go, revealing the journey of how its creators tackled real-world performance bottlenecks – and the lessons learned along the way. Forget the basics; we’re going deep! 🛠️ ...

Presenters Vignesh Ravichandran Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 Go Concurrency: Avoiding Common Pitfalls & Building Production-Ready Systems 🛠️ Hey everyone! 👋 Concurrency is a powerful tool, especially when building robust and scalable applications. Go, with its built-in support, makes concurrency seem easy. But it’s easy to fall into common traps that can lead to performance bottlenecks, resource leaks, and even crashes. Today, we’re diving into some of those pitfalls and, more importantly, how to avoid them, drawing inspiration from how a system like CockroachDB tackles these challenges. Let’s get started! ...

Presenters Abhishek Varshney Source Gophercon India 2025 Scaling Database Maintenance with Go: A Tale of Hundreds of Databases 🚀 Hey Gophers! 👋 Ever wrestled with database maintenance? It’s a necessary evil, but can quickly become a massive headache, especially when dealing with a microservices architecture. That’s what Abhishek, Software Architect at Cred, explored at GopherCon, and we’re breaking down the journey to a more scalable and less painful process. The Challenge: Database Maintenance at Scale 💾 Cred, a leading payments platform in India, processes a huge volume of transactions – over one-third of all credit card bill payments in India! This is powered by a sprawling network of over 800 microservices and 150+ databases. Imagine the complexity of maintaining all of that! ...

Presenters Yash Mehrotra Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 Unleashing AI Assistants: A Deep Dive into Model Control Planes (MCP) 🤖 The world of AI is evolving at breakneck speed, and a fascinating new technology called Model Control Planes (MCP) is poised to reshape how we interact with systems and leverage the power of Large Language Models (LLMs). This presentation provided a compelling look at MCP, its potential, and the crucial considerations for responsible implementation. Let’s break down what you need to know! ...

Presenters Alex Rios Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 United We Compile: Zig vs. Go Cross-Compilation – A Developer’s Dream? Cross-compilation – the ability to build software for different operating systems and architectures – is a cornerstone of modern development. But let’s be honest, it can often feel more like a frustrating puzzle than a streamlined process. If you’re a Go developer, you know this struggle firsthand. But what if there was a better way? That’s what Alex, a senior staff engineer with a fintech background, explored in a fascinating presentation on cross-compilation, focusing on Zig as a compelling alternative to Go’s traditional approach. Let’s dive in! ...