we share materials Lamoda Tech PHP

The number of vacancies for Golang developers is growing every year in many companies. Lamoda Tech is no exception. We are constantly looking for specialists, and are especially happy to see those who know two languages - both Go and PHP. And we are ready to retrain from the good old “pyha” and grow new gophers.

Two weeks ago, we gathered at Lamoda Home to find out whether Go has any advantages over PHP. A serious debate took place on two platforms at once: in the hall and in the meetup broadcast. Today, we are sharing the materials of the event. Look for yourself in the photo if you were with us that day!

Videos and presentations of reports

From PHP/Python to Go: How We Help Developers (Almost) Painlessly Switch Stacks

Misha Mokhnachev, Head of Development Department

Back in 2017, when we were cutting up the PHP monolith into Go microservices, we were learning the technologies ourselves and learning our own lessons. However, this allowed us to build a good knowledge base, which has now become the basis for a two-week technical onboarding for PHP developers. During this time, a newbie studies Go theory and creates their own service. In his report, Misha described in detail the stages of our onboarding, which immerses you in Go from the first days.

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Switching to Go from the perspective of a PHP developer: pitfalls and challenges

Kostya Kozin, Senior PHP Developer

Disclaimer: in this report, Kostya did not discuss the pros and cons of Golang. Instead, he talked about the difficulties that a PHP developer may encounter. Kostya will share pitfalls and pains that are not obvious at first glance, but if you know about them in advance, then getting to know a new programming language will not be so annoying and unpredictable.

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Discussion: Golang Vs PHP

Is Golang suitable for business logic, is it worth using ORM, is the emergence of Golang a way back to the 90s? We are looking for answers to these questions in a super-hot discussion together with the audience!