GopherCon UK is the annual event for Go developers. Join us in London, 11–13 August 2026, for three days of the latest #golang training.
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Every talk from GopherCon UK 2026 is now on YouTube.
Whether you missed a session, couldn't be in two tracks at once, or just want to rewatch a favourite, it's all there and free to watch.
Huge thanks to our speakers for these, and to everyone who joined us in London. 💙
👉 youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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A few weeks into a new job, Tom Coupland joined a small team with a stack of AI tools and one simple brief: see what you can do. What followed was a crash course in shipping with AI, from the early excitement and code that quickly got out of hand to the habits and guardrails that got a real product live.
In this talk, Tom shares the whole journey, and why getting the fundamentals right matters more now than ever.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/2rdS6icyTV4
REST has powered the web for years, but it wasn't built with AI in mind. Andy Kuszyk found that out first-hand at @typeform , where building an AI assistant on top of the existing API took far more work than expected.
This talk explores why MCP is becoming the new standard for connecting AI to your platform, using a pizza-ordering example to make it click, and shares the patterns Typeform used to roll it out across the whole engineering team, alongside the REST API they already had.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/4EK3usamWOc
Java and Python developers have long been able to add monitoring to their apps without touching any code. For Go, it's always been a manual job, but that's changing fast.
In this talk, Kemal Akkoyun tours every practical way to see inside your Go services without changing a single line, from tools that work deep inside the Linux kernel to ones that step in while your code is being built, and helps you pick the right one for your systems.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/tidmOddZOao
Building a full web app on your own can feel like a lot, especially if JavaScript isn't your comfort zone.
Haseeb Majid's talk shows a simpler path, using Go, HTMX and a handful of friendly tools to go from idea to finished app with barely any JavaScript. It's an honest, practical look at where this approach shines, where it falls short, and why simple code is easier for both you and AI to work with.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/lZ4EPkIngRc
If you've ever wondered where Go fits into the world of machine learning, this talk is a great place to start.
@samb_tech builds a custom neural network from scratch, using a Wordle-solving project to show how Go and the GPU can share the work, with Go running the show and CUDA handling the number crunching. It's a nuts-and-bolts look at how the pieces fit together, from the model's design to the lessons learned along the way.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/xTkk-UHBJ6k
Benchmarks are how we prove our code got faster, but only if the numbers are telling the truth.
Kemal Akkoyun's talk uncovers the sneaky ways Go benchmarks can mislead you, from simple mistakes in how they're written to the background noise that makes results hard to repeat. Kemal then shows how to tame it all, from quick checks on your own machine to catching slowdowns automatically before they ever reach production.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/SMNflDmiYbI
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Has static analysis become a thing of the past in the AI era? Jonathan Amsterdam of the Go team says it’s just as relevant for agents as it is for people.
What happens when a lifelong programmer teams up on stage with a teenage son who isn't sure he likes coding?
@feyeleanor 's talk is a candid, funny look at why schools are getting programming wrong, with lessons that promise a lot, deliver very little and rarely let students actually build anything.
Along the way, the pair share the Go project they've been working on together, and show how making something you care about can teach far more than any syllabus.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/-PBtMu17Gus
Once customers get a taste of AI in one part of your product, they expect it everywhere.
That's the challenge @typeform faced after its AI form builder took off, and in this follow-up to MCP is the New REST, Andy Kuszyk shares how the company went from a single assistant to a whole team of specialist agents. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the architecture, the team structure and the lessons learned in making every product team an AI team.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/-48cwqiT3Wc
No manual trading allowed. That's the one hard rule behind @_andrewwormald trading company, set up to see what's really possible when AI helps build a trading business and then helps run it.
With real money on the line, Andrew walks through how models are trained in Python, shared through ONNX and put to work in Go, the language behind around 90% of the platform, along with the lessons learned keeping it all running around the clock.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/CFMA93YIhfw
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Massive thanks to everyone who came to our first @jetbrains hosted @gdg_london event 🤜 #goland #golang
When you think of desktop apps, Go probably isn't the first language that comes to mind. Andrew Williams is out to change that.
In this talk, @andydotxyz takes you inside FyneDesk and FyshOS, a complete desktop written in Go, from managing windows and virtual desktops to an app launcher with built-in AI, all running live on stage. It might just inspire you to build your next app with Go.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/OQVbKMGABqU
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I really like this short, it extract very well what was my intention with the talk about the select internals 🙂
Select is a cornerstone of how Go handles concurrency, but it can be tricky to get your head around, especially if you've come from a language where it looks just like a switch.
In this talk, @jespinog takes a deep dive into how select really works, following it through the compiler, which quietly rewrites your code, and into the runtime, which picks between channels fairly and keeps your program from getting stuck. Understand it once, and you'll write better concurrent Go for good.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/fH5hoZJL_tQ
Select is a cornerstone of how Go handles concurrency, but it can be tricky to get your head around, especially if you've come from a language where it looks just like a switch.
In this talk, @jespinog takes a deep dive into how select really works, following it through the compiler, which quietly rewrites your code, and into the runtime, which picks between channels fairly and keeps your program from getting stuck. Understand it once, and you'll write better concurrent Go for good.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/fH5hoZJL_tQ
A broken config that passes every check is one of the sneakiest problems in production, because nobody finds out until something goes wrong.
Veronika Volokitina tackled exactly that in Skipper, @Zalando's open source Go router, by making sure the checks at deploy time and the live system agree on what "valid" means.
In this talk, Veronika shares the Go patterns behind the fix, the real bugs uncovered along the way, and lessons on rolling out changes safely at scale.
Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/UdsiZr9HEJI
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I know what I'll be doing over the weekend!
Every talk from GopherCon UK 2026 is now on YouTube.
Whether you missed a session, couldn't be in two tracks at once, or just want to rewatch a favourite, it's all there and free to watch.
Huge thanks to our speakers for these, and to everyone who joined us in London. 💙
👉 youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
#golang #gopherconuk26
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If you missed my talk at @gopherconuk about the select statement, here are the slides (speakerdeck.com/jespino/deep…) and the recording (youtube.com/watch?v=fH5hoZJL…). Check out the rest of the recordings in the conference, as always at @gopherconuk, the talks where amazing.
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Checkout the current family of #Kronk stickers coming to a #golang event near you. Check out the travel schedule on the Kronk repo.
github.com/ardanlabs/kronk#t…
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If you're like me and now feel a bit crap now you're building less, check out some tips to help stay passionate in tech.
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