This is the story of the vote API that allows Devoxx attendees to rate talks at Devoxx UK and Devoxx BE. We will go through how the how the API is constructed as a microservice, deployment and how the UI is build. Along the way we will explore performance and how was first written in go as a way to explore the language and its journey to the JVM. Expect a rant about go, some lisp, Javascript and Java and lessons learned about running an API at a developer