Gopher Academy Courses

Becoming the Metaprogrammer - Real World Code Generation

Explore code generation techniques to reduce boilerplate in Go, with real-world examples from ngrok covering API clients, error handling, tests, and GRPC interceptors.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Queues, Fairness, and The Go Scheduler

Explore Go's scheduler, its fairness mechanisms, and runtime APIs. Gain insights into Goroutine scaling, thread mapping, and scheduler control techniques.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Reliability Nirvana

Explore event-driven architectures in Go, covering message systems, protobuf, and reliability patterns. Learn to build robust distributed systems with practical demos and code examples.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Journey from Big Python Monolith to Go Services

Explore Khan Academy's transition from a Python monolith to Go services, focusing on GraphQL-based API implementation and strategies for large-scale code migration.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Debugging Treasure Hunt

Discover effective Go debugging techniques in VS Code through a fun treasure hunt, packed with examples and developer insights to enhance your coding efficiency.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

AI Driven Development in Go

Explore AI-driven programming tools for Go, their impact on development practices, and potential benefits for the language. Learn best practices and future implications.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Rethinking How We Test Our Async Architecture

Explore innovative approaches to testing asynchronous architectures in production, focusing on reliability and handling real-world data at scale.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

When Toy Languages Grow Up

Explore the journey of creating a personal programming language, its unexpected growth, and the benefits of building your own language for deeper understanding of systems.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Writing a Static Analyzer for Go Code

Learn to create custom static analyzers for Go, catching preventable errors before they reach production and enhancing code quality through automated checks.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The What's, Why's, and How's of Running WebAssembly in Go

Explore WebAssembly integration in Go: its purpose, benefits, and implementation techniques. Learn about performance, sandbox interactions, and building effective Go applications with WebAssembly.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Go at Mainframe Scale

Scaling Go services at Capital One: Processing massive account data, overcoming challenges, and transitioning from mainframes to modern distributed systems in AWS.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Go Profiling and Observability from Scratch

Explore Go profiling and observability tools to optimize performance, reduce costs, and debug issues. Learn about runtime internals, built-in profilers, and advanced techniques for efficient Go application development.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Generics

Go team members discuss the introduction of generics in Go 1.18, providing guidance on their effective use and impact on code readability, maintainability, and performance.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Building a Game Engine for 300 DEFCON Hackers to Smash

Building a custom game engine for a narrative-driven CTF at DEFCON, enabling interactive gameplay for 300+ hackers with real-time communication, scoring, and challenges.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Safety Not Guaranteed - Calling Windows APIs Using Unsafe and Syscall

Explore Windows API integration in Go using unsafe and syscall packages. Learn DLL loading, struct mapping, and API result conversion while avoiding common pitfalls.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk