Mining the Go developer communityDonnie Berkholz, Ph.D.Research Director — Development, DevOps, & IT Ops

GopherCon, July 2016

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Back in the olden days of yore (a.k.a. 2014)

http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/03/18/go-the-emerging-language-of-cloud-infrastructure/

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Back in the olden days of yore (a.k.a. 2014)

http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/03/18/go-the-emerging-language-of-cloud-infrastructure/

Core philosophy

Data: Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO)

Methods: Keep it simple, stupid (KISS)

Analysis: Don't overinterpret

Case study: containers

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Case study: configuration management

http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2015/04/02/quantifying-configuration-management-communities/

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Case study: configuration management

http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2015/04/02/quantifying-configuration-management-communities/

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming

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Avoiding bus factors in the core

https://www.openhub.net/p/go/contributors/summary

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A look at the core community

https://www.openhub.net/p/go/contributors/summary

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Yes, discussion is correlated to actual use

http://www.dataists.com/2010/12/ranking-the-popularity-of-programming-langauges/

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The Go ecosystem is doing alright

https://www.openhub.net/languages/golang https://www.openhub.net/languages/rust

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The Go ecosystem is doing alright

https://www.openhub.net/languages/golang https://www.openhub.net/languages/javascript

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Who is the real competitor?

http://www.modulecounts.com/

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Who is the real competitor?

http://www.modulecounts.com/

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Who is the real competitor?

http://www.modulecounts.com/

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“Doggone it, people like me”

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

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Go is growing up, and growing slower

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

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Growing up means getting jobs

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2016/june.html

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… one more thing

cauldron.io (Bitergia)

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Thank you!Donnie BerkholzTwitter: @dberkholzdonnie.berkholz@451research.com

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Rates! That’s the ticket!

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Method 1 - crap Method 2 - lukewarm Method 3 – WIN!

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