Gopher Academy Courses

How to Write Better HTTP Clients - Lessons from 7 Years of Experience

Discover techniques for building robust HTTP clients using decorators, enhancing testability and maintainability in Go programming. Learn from Tom Lyons' experience and improve your client-side development skills.

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

Randomness 101 - From Secret to Public - Lecture

Explore the intricacies of randomness in Go, from biases and potential pitfalls to creating and using various types of random number generators for secure and efficient applications.

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

Real-time Adaptive Controls for Increased Resiliency - Lecture

Explore real-time Adaptive Controls for dynamic tuning of distributed systems, enhancing resilience through automatic parameter adjustment based on error and latency sampling, as implemented at CrowdStrike.

• YouTube
• 36 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

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

Balanced GC: A Copying Garbage Collector for Golang - Lecture

Explore a new copying garbage collector for Go that accelerates object allocation and enhances performance in large-scale microservices through bump allocation and per-goroutine buffers.

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

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Type Inference in Go

Explore Go's type inference feature: its magic, potential, and impact on code cleanliness. Gain insights into this powerful aspect of Go's generic functions.

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

Building Your Own Distributed System Using Go

Learn to create a robust distributed system with Go, leveraging Raft consensus and databases like SQLite and BoltDB. Explore powerful language features and community libraries.

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