Go 1.27 Release Party – Free Online Event With the Go Team

Join us on August 25 at 4:00 pm UTC for a free online event for Go developers, where we will discuss Go 1.27.

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Instead of reading the release notes on your own, we’d like to invite you to experience the release together with the community.

Welcome to The Blue Gopher!

For one evening, The Blue Gopher becomes a virtual gathering place for Go developers from around the world. Streaming live from JetBrains’ Amsterdam office, we’ve transformed our café into a neighborhood spot where developers can meet, celebrate the Go 1.27 release, and hear directly from the people who made it happen.

Hosted by Ainsley Clark and Jesús Espino, the event will feature the team behind the Go 1.27 release – Robert Griesemer, Alan Donovan, Marc Dougherty, Cameron Balahan, and Joe Tsai. They’ll share the story behind the release, discuss the most important language and tooling changes, and answer your questions live.

We’ll also take a look at the community’s first reactions to Go 1.27, discuss what’s generating the most excitement, and demonstrate GoLand’s day one support for the new release, showing how you can start using the latest language features right away.

Join us for a party full of conversations, live demos, and community discussion – and celebrate the Go 1.27 release with the people who built it.

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Robert Griesemer, Software Engineer at Go Team, Google

Robert Griesemer is one of the creators of the Go programming language. In Go 1.27, he led the design of generic methods and contributed to the improved type inference for generics, making generic APIs more expressive and easier to use. Before Go, Robert worked on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine and Sawzall and was a founding member of the teams behind the Java HotSpot virtual machine and the Strongtalk system.

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Alan Donovan, Software Engineer at Go Team, Google

Alan Donovan is a member of Google’s Go team in New York and serves on the committees that review change proposals for the Go language and its library. He leads the development of analysis and refactoring tools, including gopls, the Go language server for Go that turns any editor into a Go IDE.

Alan has more than 25 years of experience building tools for software developers and holds degrees in Computer Science from Cambridge and MIT. He and Brian W. Kernighan are the co-authors of The Go Programming Language (Addison-Wesley, 2015).

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Marc Dougherty, Developer Relations Lead for Go at Go Team, Google

Marc Dougherty leads Developer Relations for Go at Google. Before joining the Go team, he worked as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), where he developed a passion for building resilient, observable distributed systems. Today, Marc works closely with the Go community, helping developers adopt Go and sharing best practices for the entire ecosystem.

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Group Product Manager at Go Team, Google

Cameron Balahan is the Product Lead for the Go programming language at Google. He is responsible for Go’s product strategy and contributes to Google’s AI developer assistance and agent ecosystem initiatives. Before leading Go, Cameron managed programming language support and integrations for Google Cloud. Earlier in his career, he built low-latency trading systems in C and C++. Today, he prefers building them in Go.

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Joe Tsai, Software Engineer at Tailscale

Joe Tsai is an engineer at Tailscale, where he works on problems related to data logging. He’s a regular contributor to the Go project and most recently co-authored the encoding/json/v2 package. Previously, he maintained Go libraries at Google and co-authored the protobuf module and the cmp package. He’s been writing Go since 2012, starting with the implementation of a telemetry database at SpaceX. Joe is a Christian and a father of five adorable children.

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Ainsley Clark, Go Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Ainsley Clark is a Go Developer Advocate at JetBrains and a software engineer specializing in Go, scalable backend systems, and modern web development. He is passionate about helping developers build better Go applications through educational content, technical talks, and hands-on examples, while exploring Go beyond traditional backend development.

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Jesús Espino, Principal Engineer at VictoriaMetrics

Jesús Espino is an open-source and software development enthusiast. He has made substantial contributions to open-source projects like Taiga, Penpot, Mattermost, Focalboard, and testcontainers-go.

Jesús loves to share knowledge by presenting at various conferences and blogging at internals-for-interns.com.

Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer at VictoriaMetrics, where he mainly uses Go and TypeScript.

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