Developer's black hole
Hi. I’m Flavio Percoco (a.k.a flaper87), and I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I spend my days working on OpenStack, speaking at conferences. In my spare time I contribute to Rust, write, read, surf, travel, smoke my coffee and drink my pipe.
Embracing new languages in OpenStack
OpenStack has been an (almost) Python-only community for a very long time. Other programming languages have been used for very specific use cases - UI, configuration files, deployment tools, for example - but never for OpenStack's API services until now.
During the Newton cycle, a resolution to accept Go as an official …