Though its usage is not widely known, more and more people from both the development and infrastructure side are beginning to program in Go.

Mike’s guest today is Michael Levan, back on the show to discuss his shift from writing production-level code to content creation, and back to writing production-level code. He is now working at Octopus Deploy as a Developer Advocate, focusing on all the different types of integrations that tie into Octopus.

Michael is here to talk about the increase of programming in Go and just how much this programming language is being used already!

In this episode, we talk about…

• Day-to-day breakdown of Michael’s job at Octopus Deploy
• Diving into Go as a widely-used programming language
• Michael’s book, Quality Code with Go
• Who is using Go and what they are using it for
• Go’s adoption on the infrastructure side with things like Terraform configurations
• How Go helped Michael when learning to write Terraform
• The best way to start with Go completely from scratch
• Michael’s advice for anyone looking to go down the path of DevRel
• Thoughts on public speaking for beginners

Resources from this episode:

• Mike's Book: Quality Code with Go
• Mike's Website
• Mike on YouTube
• Mike on Twitter

If you'd like to read the full text transcript for this episode head over to cloudskills.io/blog/episode-097

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