Nic Jackson is a developer advocate and polyglot programmer working for HashiCorp, and the author of “Building Microservices in Go” due to be published April 2017; this book examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language. In his spare time, Nic coaches and mentors at Coder Dojo teaching kids 7-14 Swift with Playgrounds, teaches at Women Who Go and GoBridge, speaks and evangelizes good coding practice, process, and technique and works to raise money for a charity he runs with his wife.