Asim Aslam on Micro, the Go Microservice Toolkit

Asim Aslam joined us to talk about Micro, a pluggable RPC based library which provides the fundamental building blocks for writing microservices in Go. We also discussed open source sustainability, microservices, and serverless architecture.

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Featuring:

• Asim Aslam – GitHub (https://github.com/asim), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/asimaslam) • Erik St. Martin – GitHub (https://github.com/erikstmartin), X (https://x.com/erikstmartin) • Carlisia Thompson – GitHub (https://github.com/carlisia), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlisia), X (https://x.com/carlisia) • Brian Ketelsen – GitHub (https://github.com/bketelsen), X (https://x.com/bketelsen)

Show Notes:

• Micro (https://micro.mu/)

• Blog post: “Writing microservices with Go Micro” (https://blog.micro.mu/2016/03/28/go-micro.html)

• Micro Slack (http://micro-invites.herokuapp.com/)

• What is Serverless Computing? (Quora) (https://www.quora.com/What-is-Serverless-Computing)

• Serverless Framework (https://github.com/serverless/serverless) - Build web, mobile and IoT applications with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google CloudFunctions & more!

• Apex - Servless architecture (http://apex.run/)

• Source code behind IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk (https://github.com/openwhisk)

Projects and News

• Go 1.7 Release Notes (https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.7)

• Subtests and Sub-benchmarks (https://tip.golang.org/pkg/testing/#hdr-Subtests_and_Sub_benchmarks)

• Go 1.7 Context (https://peter.bourgon.org/blog/2016/07/11/context.html)

• Torus: distributed storage by CoreOS built for Kubernetes (https://coreos.com/blog/torus-distributed-storage-by-coreos.html)

• A distributed, serverless, configuration tool using AWS services (https://github.com/tmaiaroto/discfg) by Tom Maiaroto

Free Software Friday

• Brian - CoreOS (https://coreos.com/)

• Carlisia - State Management for Go, inspired by Redux (https://github.com/luisvinicius167/godux) by Luis Vinicius Pacheco (https://twitter.com/viniciuspach)

• Asim: Postfix (http://www.postfix.org/)

• Erik - VLC (http://www.videolan.org/)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! (https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/gotime/go-time-8.md)