Greetings, fellow GDG'ers! Come join us for another session with two informational talks while we enjoy pizza and drinks courtesy of TekSystems and raffle off our monthly prizes.

Developing Applications with Go and NoSQL (Nic Raboy)
In this session we’ll see how to create a fully functional RESTful API using the Go programming language and an open source NoSQL database called Couchbase. Communication between Go and the database will consist of a few techniques, including CRUD operations and SQL queries that are compatible with complex JSON data.

About the speaker
Nic Raboy is an advocate of modern web and mobile development technologies. He has experience in Java, JavaScript, Golang and a variety of frameworks such as Angular, NativeScript, and Apache Cordova. Nic writes about his development experiences related to making web and mobile development easier to understand.

Custom Form Validation in Angular (Alain Chautard)
In this talk, Alain will be implementing custom form validation features in an Angular application, adn demonstrate how to build a custom validator function that works with both template driven and reactive forms.

About the speaker
Alain is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies / Angular. He started working with Angular JS in 2011.
Since then he has worked with all Angular versions on a daily basis, both as a developer and as a technical trainer.
He is the organizer of the Sacramento Angular Meetup group, co-organizer of the Google Developer Group chapter in Sacramento, California, conference speaker, and published author of the Packt video course “Getting Started with Angular“.