SQLens: AI Powered Database Intelligence for Go

Presenters Akshay Khurd Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 Bridging the Gap: How AI is Supercharging SQL Performance at Dua 💡 Dealing with slow SQL queries can feel like wading through molasses. It’s frustrating, impacts API performance, and can derail even the most skilled developers. At Dua, they faced this problem head-on, and the solution they built – SQL Lens – is a brilliant example of how AI and schema intelligence can work together to unlock significant performance gains. Let’s dive into how they tackled this challenge and what we can learn from their innovative approach. ...

September 19, 2025 · 4 min

100+ DB Upgrades in 10 Minutes (Maintenance Mode)

Presenters Abhishek Varshney Source Gophercon India 2025 Scaling Database Maintenance with Go: A Tale of Hundreds of Databases 🚀 Hey Gophers! 👋 Ever wrestled with database maintenance? It’s a necessary evil, but can quickly become a massive headache, especially when dealing with a microservices architecture. That’s what Abhishek, Software Architect at Cred, explored at GopherCon, and we’re breaking down the journey to a more scalable and less painful process. The Challenge: Database Maintenance at Scale 💾 Cred, a leading payments platform in India, processes a huge volume of transactions – over one-third of all credit card bill payments in India! This is powered by a sprawling network of over 800 microservices and 150+ databases. Imagine the complexity of maintaining all of that! ...

September 19, 2025 · 3 min

Broken Go: The Unexpected Behaviours

Presenters Sagar Sonwane Source Gophercon India 2025 Decoding Go’s Quirks: A Journey Through Unexpected Behaviors 🤯 Hey Gophers! 👋 Ever felt like Go was acting a little… weird? You’re not alone! Sometimes, the language throws curveballs that challenge your assumptions and leave you scratching your head. That’s what Sager, a seasoned Go developer, explored in his presentation at GopherCon 2025 - “Broken Go.” This wasn’ll just a talk; it was an interactive quiz designed to expose some of Go’s most delightfully quirky behaviors. Let’s dive in! ...

September 19, 2025 · 3 min

Writing Your Own MCP Server: From Scratch to Production in Go

Presenters Yash Mehrotra Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 Unleashing AI Assistants: A Deep Dive into Model Control Planes (MCP) 🤖 The world of AI is evolving at breakneck speed, and a fascinating new technology called Model Control Planes (MCP) is poised to reshape how we interact with systems and leverage the power of Large Language Models (LLMs). This presentation provided a compelling look at MCP, its potential, and the crucial considerations for responsible implementation. Let’s break down what you need to know! ...

September 19, 2025 · 4 min

From Cash to Digital: Evolution of Payments Infrastructure

Presenters Kshitij Pratihast Source Gophercon India 2025 Scaling Citizen Payments: Lessons from Building a System for 20 Billion Transactions a Month 🚀 Ever wondered how a payment system can handle billions of transactions every month, reliably and securely? The recent presentation on the journey of UPI (Unified Payments Interface) and its underlying infrastructure provided a fascinating deep dive into the architecture, evolution, and key principles behind a system designed for citizen-scale impact. Let’s explore the key takeaways! ...

September 19, 2025 · 4 min