On 2/18/2014 11:40 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Jonathan Duncan <
[email protected]> wrote:
My employer is considering the hire of another developer. The first
requirement is that the developer knows or is willing to learn Go. The
second requirement is that the developer not be entrenched in web
development but open to and experienced in other forms of development,
especially API and service infrastructure development.
If you are interested at all, shoot me a note offlist.
Thank you for the replies. Among the replies it was mentioned that perhaps
the list may be interested in a bit more information about the company I
work for.
I work for SmartyStreets (http://smartystreets.com/). We provide address
verification services. Recently we have decided to rewrite ALL of our
services in Go. The services are currently in .Net/C# and as all of us here
know, that platform, while it has certain merits, has a great many
downfalls. It may interest you to read a blog post from the owner of the
company about exactly why we chose Go. He also has some other recent posts
about why we are leaving .Net.
http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/why-i-love-go/
Also, as part of our massive rewrite we are taking the time to put
everything under test. The native test tools with go were not exactly what
we wanted, so rolled our own that has become quite popular on github. We
call it GoConvey (http://goconvey.co/). Feel free to check it out.
Enjoy!
Jonathan Duncan
Yes yes, that's cool and all, but how do we compete for the job? Do we
have to write Fizzbuzz in Go? Is it more of a Gladiator style thing in
the HR conference room? Do we have to save IT from Master Blaster in a
Thunderdome cage match before we can get an offer?
I'm all for the sport of it, but man, the demands of the job market
these days. =cP
(In all seriousness, it looks like cool tech, hope you find awesome
peeps for it.)
-Tod Hansmann
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