What we learn by creating a bot in go.

1. Guillermo
@guillermooo
Lead dev @ Tourlane GmbH

2. TL BOT
Why we did that
And what we learnt

3. WHY?

4. What is a bot?

5. Bot
A. Is a program
B. It connects to a network or
platform (for example slack)
C. It listen for incoming
conversations
D. It replies to that conversations

11. We need a
platform

15. We need a
Handler

17. Let's put all
together

19. Play

21. Now what?
Easy interfaces
Create defaults
Muxer

28. Let's create our
first plugin!

30. And our Jira one

31. Ok, let's
not do that
now

36. What we learnt
3 things and we are done

37. 3 phases of a
go app
1. Make it barely work with
main.go and main_test.go
2. Extract the different parts in
files or folders.
3. Learn what are the interfaces
between that modules and
create interfaces
4. “Convenience methods”

38. The magic of
go
Leading by example
Follow
patterns
Not only
interfaces

39. Always start
small
Don’t try to do everything at once
80/20% questioning vs coding

40. Thanks

41. Questions?

42. Guillermo
@guillermooo
Lead dev @ Tourlane GmbH