Go Make Something Real - The Potential for Go on the Factory Floor
Explore the potential of Go programming language in industrial automation through this 28-minute conference talk from GopherCon 2020. Discover how Go's features like strong type safety, fast execution speed, and goroutines are revolutionizing secure industrial automation. Learn about Fathom5's experience deploying Go microservice architectures in heavy industrial environments. Gain insights into three specific use cases where Go has been integrated into industrial systems, providing new paradigms for secure automation. Understand the vision of simplifying factory product additions and enabling safe software updates for electrical utilities using DevOps principles. Delve into the challenges of implementing DevOps workflows in process control computers and communications protocols used in factories and critical infrastructure, and see how Go is addressing these issues.