Your source for diverse discussions from around the Go community. This show records LIVE every Tuesday at 3pm US Eastern. Join the Golang community and chat with us during the show in the #gotimefm channel of Gophers slack. Panelists include Mat Ryer, Jon Calhoun, Carmen Andoh, Johnny Boursiquot, Angelica Hill, Mark Bates, Kris Brandow, and Natalie Pistunovich. We discuss cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker… oh and also Go! Some people search for GoTime or GoTimeFM and can’t find the show, so now the strings GoTime and GoTimeFM are in our description too.
Matt Holt on CaddyServer, the ACME Protocol, TLS
This episode wins the contest for the most protocols discussed. Matt Holt joined the show to to talk about TLS, Let’s Encrypt, the ACME protocol, CaddyServer, and a host of other important information security issues.
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Featuring
- Matt Holt – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
- Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub
Notes and Links
- CaddyServer
- Caddy 0.9 Released with All New Core (blog post)
- Papaparse: a CSV parser for the browser
- websocketd: Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server. Like inetd, but for WebSockets.
- Let’s Encrypt: free SSL certificates
- PKI (wikipedia)
- Key concepts of information security: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Non-repudiation
- Bulletproof TLS Newsletter
- ACME Protocole
- Extended Validation Certificate
- Manage TLS certificates automatically via LetsEncrypt.org
- Automated wrapper to add let’s encrypt support to go servers
Interesting Go Projects and News
- GopherCon Brasil sponsorship prospectus
- Hewlett Packard Go AST Scanner
- Static analysis tool for Go that protects against SQL injections
- Synchronization, error propagation, and Context cancelation for groups of goroutines working on subtasks of a common task
- Brad Fitzpatrick’s functest library
- Go wrapper for the .NET Core Runtime
- Fatih’s vim-go tutorial
- Keep track of upcoming vim-go features