Software Engineer @ Bloomberg

Spencer Kormos

Software Engineer @ Bloomberg

Spencer Kormos is a software engineer at Bloomberg, where he is helping his team build BQuant, a cloud-based, quantitative analytics and data science platform integrated directly into the Bloomberg Terminal. He has worked at Bloomberg since 2022, and has been developing in Go since 2016.
Spencer has been writing enterprise software across finance, e-commerce, and insurance since the late ‘90s, using programming languages like Go, Python, and Java (and the JVMs).

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SLog in Anger: production patterns for testable and concise structured logging

November 03 2026 - 14:45 (45 min )

The `log/slog` package has been part of the standard library since v1.21 (Aug 2023). Yet, many Go projects are still scratching the surface of its potential. Are you truly making use of all its features?

This talk moves beyond the basics of `Logger` and `Handler` to explore how `slog` transforms logging from a tedious chore into a powerful, maintainable, and testable system. We’ll quickly review `slog`'s robust stack, then dive deep into practical, production-ready patterns.

LEVEL: Intermediate

SLog in Anger: production patterns for testable and concise structured logging

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