Hello Gophers,
Happy new year!

If you'd like to give a talk - submit your proposals here: http://goo.gl/forms/54YvJT223F

If you'd like to suggest topics for the fishbowl session - add the topic as a response to our fishbowl thread at the #berlin channel at the Gophers Slack: https://gophers.slack.com/archives/C032NF851/p1546527772015500

If you have more ideas - talk to us at the Gophers slack: https://gophersinvite.herokuapp.com/ in the #berlin channel, and follow us on twitter:https://twitter.com/gdgberlingolang

📅 AGENDA 📅

19:00-19:25 Networking over drinks and pizza

19:25-19:30 Welcome words

19:30-20:00 Redis and Go for geospatial data / Levin Fritz

Dealing with geographic coordinates can be scary -- even calculating the distance between two locations is difficult! This talk shows how the combination of Redis and Go makes for a really simple and robust solution for storing geo data.

20:00-20:30 Announcements, HR lost & found, break

20:30-21:00 Starting Serverless with Go / Stefan Meissner
This talk should give you an understanding what serverless computing is and how to start with Go.

21:00-end Networking

🎤 ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS 🎤

Levin Fritz, Backend Engineer at fromAtoB

Levin is writing Go code, building microservices and thinking about the future of travel.

Stefan Meissner, Backend Developer at TUI

Stefan is keen to discover new technologies. Currently he is focusing on cloud architecture. He graduated with a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Free University in Berlin. Stefan is successfully doing Triathlon and likes to play chess.

🤓ABOUT fromAtoB 🤓

fromAtoB’s mission is to help everyone find the best way to get from A
to B, combining flights, trains, buses and car-sharing. We’re building
a platform that integrates and analyses hundreds of routes, stations,
providers and prices, using technology ranging from View.js, Go and
Kubernetes to machine learning and graph theory.

Cheers,
The Organizers™