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I'd better think of something to talk about now this has been announced :-)

Hey HN, what would you like me to talk about at this conference?

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Talk about how you convinced CloudFlare to use Go for core products.

That was easy. I just wrote one of the core products in Go :-) Then someone wrote some SSL code, then we rewrote our DNS server in it.

It's a pretty easy drug to get hooked on, if you do things with lots of concurrent connections all doing similar things.

Ask forgiveness not permission? :-)

Aside from talking about Go at Cloudflare, some topics that may be interesting to me (someone who has used Go for personal and work projects, but works at a much smaller company):

* Deployment/sysops practices at Cloudflare, especially since (IIRC) a plurality but not majority of Cloudflare's internal services are written in Go

* Challenges maintaining your own DNS server (which is written in Go), and how you address them

* Maintaining a healthy relationship with the FOSS + language community (Cloudflare seems to place more importance on this than the average company[0][1])

(These are a mixture of things about Cloudflare and about Go, but depending on the format of the conference, people may be interested in some stuff that's more indirectly related Go as well)

[0] http://blog.cloudflare.com/open-source-two-way-street

[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/keeping-our-open-source-promise

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