High Performance PyData Tools by Adding Go to the Mix

Presenters Prasun Anand Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 Say Goodbye to Jupyter Lag: Introducing Zasper, the Go-Powered Notebook Alternative! ✨ For years, Jupyter notebooks have been the go-to tool for Python data scientists. But let’s be honest, they’re not without their frustrations. Crashes, slow performance, and deployment headaches – we’ve all been there. But what if there was a better way? Enter Zasper, a high-performance Jupyter notebook alternative built with Go, and poised to revolutionize your data science workflow. ...

September 19, 2025 · 3 min

Go Concurrency: How not to Burn the House Down

Presenters Vignesh Ravichandran Source Gophercon India 2025 🚀 Go Concurrency: Avoiding Common Pitfalls & Building Production-Ready Systems 🛠️ Hey everyone! 👋 Concurrency is a powerful tool, especially when building robust and scalable applications. Go, with its built-in support, makes concurrency seem easy. But it’s easy to fall into common traps that can lead to performance bottlenecks, resource leaks, and even crashes. Today, we’re diving into some of those pitfalls and, more importantly, how to avoid them, drawing inspiration from how a system like CockroachDB tackles these challenges. Let’s get started! ...

September 19, 2025 · 4 min

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