Cory LaNou a full stack technologist who has specialized in start-ups for the last 20 years. Cory has started several technology companies over the years, including companies such as Pulsity, a web consulting firm in the late 90’s. From that company, Local Launch, an internet marketing technology company was formed and sold to RH Donnelly in 2006.
Cory has deep experience in the Go world, having worked on the Core engineering team that contributes to InfluxDB, a highly scalable, distributed time series database written in Go. Cory has worked on several other Go projects with a focus on profiling and optimizing applications, using advanced profiling concepts such as torch graphs and tracing profiles.
Cory has deep ties to the Go community, having started one of the very first Go meetups in the world, Denver Gophers, as well as assisting in the very first GopherCon. Cory has created and led numerous Go workshops and training courses. He has several published online articles related to Go. Cory also helps lead and organize several community technology meetups and mentors new developers. Cory is also a partner at Gopher Guides, the industry leader for Go training and conferences.
When Cory isn’t working on writing new Go training material, he volunteers his time helping local entrepreneurs start up their own businesses by offering free business advice and services, such as incorporating their business, getting their web presence set up, and giving them the morale support they need to make their dreams a reality.
Books
Articles
- Go Slog Package
- Slices Package
- Table Driven Testing In Parallel
- Where and When to use Iota in Go
- Leveraging the Go Type System
- Embracing the Go Type System
- Converting a Static Site to Buffalo
- Don’t commit improperly formatted code
- Making a RESTful JSON API in Go
- CLI: Command Line Programming with Go
- Why One Developer Chose Go
- Do you want to be an open source developer?
Speaking Engagements
- UWEC Entrepreneur Program - Guest Lecturer - Entrepreneurialism, the unexpected journey.
- Minneapolis Go - Testing in Go
- Go London User Group - Testing with Go and Fireside Chat with Bill Kennedy
- Minneapolis Go - Why Go - Intro to Go
- DevOps Minneapolis - Why Go - Intro to Go
- GopherCon India - 2016 Closing Keynote - The Go Community - slides
- GopherCon Dubai - 2016 The Go Community
- Chicago Go - Tips and Tricks for Beginners (Go)
- Chicago Go - Intro To Go / Command Line Programming with Go
- Chippewa Valley Code Camp - 1 Hour Go Bootcamp
- Denver Gophers - Tips and Tricks
- Denver Gophers - MGO - MongoDB Go Driver
Presentations
- Go: A One Hour Bootcamp
- Go: 10 minute introduction
- Go Tips and Tricks for Beginners
- mongoDB with Go
- Command Line Programming
Meetups
Community Repos
Community Documents
How to contact me
- Gopher Slack -
corylanou
- @corylanou on twitter
Work History
Interested in where I have worked? Just check out my LinkedIn Profile.