Gopher Academy Courses

Building Terminal UI Apps with Bubble Tea - GopherCon 2023

Learn to build terminal UI apps using Bubble Tea framework in Go. Create a plant-watering app with data I/O, styling, and multi-page navigation while exploring the Elm Architecture.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Your Own Badass Go Community - Strategies and Blueprints

Discover strategies for building a thriving Go community, from organizing hack nights to hosting meetups, with practical tips to overcome common challenges and foster engagement.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Structured Logging for the Standard Library in Go 1.21 - GopherCon 2023

Explore Go 1.21's new slog package for structured logging, covering its motivation, design, API, and performance optimizations.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Vulnerability Management for Go - GopherCon 2023

Explore Go's vulnerability management tools and learn how to build more secure software by effectively managing dependencies and identifying potential risks.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Blazing Fast Merge with Loser Trees - GopherCon 2023

Explore efficient k-way merging using Loser Trees in Go. Learn implementation strategies, performance tuning, and real-world applications in Prometheus, Pyroscope, and Grafana Loki.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Reliably Absorbing Go Releases - Lessons from Kubernetes

Explore Kubernetes' strategy for adopting Go 1.21's extended backwards compatibility, offering insights on efficiently managing Go release updates in large-scale projects.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Witch's Guide to Go - 3 Charms to Enchant Your Software

Explore software design in Go through a magical lens, learning practical techniques for decomposing complex problems and creating robust distributed systems. Gain insights from Ousterhout's teachings applied to Go programming.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Go Microservices for Machine Learning at the Edge

Explore AI/ML data pipeline processing for healthcare using Go microservices, addressing challenges in distributed deployment, service dependencies, internationalization, and integration testing.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Idiomatic Go Tells a Story - Applying Storytelling Principles to Code

Discover how storytelling principles can transform your Go code into delightful, idiomatic packages. Learn to apply the Hero's Journey to refactoring, turning mundane tasks into creative development.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building a Highly Concurrent Cache in Go - A Hitchhiker's Guide

Explore advanced Go techniques for designing and optimizing a highly concurrent cache, combining LRU & LFU eviction policies and leveraging advanced concurrency patterns beyond sync.Mutex.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Future of JSON in Go - GopherCon 2023

Explore the future of JSON handling in Go, including potential updates to the "encoding/json" package, addressing flaws, and improving performance for modern applications.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Go Language Changes and Future Directions - GopherCon 2023

Explore the latest updates and modifications to the Go programming language with Russ Cox in this insightful GopherCon 2023 presentation.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding Supply Chain Threats with Static Analysis - GopherCon 2023

Explore a CLI tool for Go that detects privileged permissions in package dependencies, enhancing security and preventing supply chain attacks.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Using Go to Bring a Pinball Machine Back to Life

Explore how Go's concurrency and WaitGroups were used to revive a pinball machine, implementing game rules and integrating Raspberry Pi and Arduino for a fully functional, Go-powered gaming experience.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

From Zero to Hero - Building and Deploying an Interactive Game in Go - GopherCon 2023

Learn to build and deploy an interactive game with in-game chat using Golang, then scale it on AWS Serverless for easy sharing with friends.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video