You Can't Go Your Own Way

Explore GitHub's journey in standardizing Go usage through this conference talk. Discover the challenges faced and lessons learned during the process, including issues with libraries, project structure, development lifecycles, security, and collaboration. Learn about the implementation of working groups, framework engineers, and migration strategies. Gain insights into improving code consistency and discoverability across large codebases, and understand the importance of buy-in when implementing standardization practices.

You Can't Go Your Own Way the standardization of go at GitHub
A short anecdote
A few days later...
libraries/ packages
project structure
development lifecycle
security & trust
discoverability & deduplication
consistency - collaboration
working groups
framework engineers
buy-in
migration
resources