Gopher Gala was a very well run world wide event, with lots of great projects that resulted. I hope everyone had a fun time participating and learned more about Golang.<p>I had the privilege of judging Gopher Gala this year.<p>Congrats to Goad. I ranked it highly too.<p>I've really enjoyed how benchmarking is handled in Go. The testing library comes with tools out of the box [1], and boom is one of the first programs where I saw the true elegance of the language [2].<p>Goad continues this tradition by putting a sharp benchmark utility "in the cloud" which is incredibly useful for distributed testing.<p>The AWS Lambda bit is a really interesting backend choice. Lambda only supports NodeJS, Python and Java out of the box. But thanks to the awesome toolchain, it's trivial to compile a golang binary and stuff it in the Lambda execution environment.<p>It's architecture is simple and extremely powerful [3].<p>[1] <a href="https://golang.org/pkg/testing/#B" rel="nofollow">https://golang.org/pkg/testing/#B</a>
[2] <a href="https://github.com/rakyll/boom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rakyll/boom</a>
[3] <a href="https://goad.io/assets/diagram.2205b67cd43c5d0b9cb9698b88436524.svg" rel="nofollow">https://goad.io/assets/diagram.2205b67cd43c5d0b9cb9698b88436...</a>