Gopher Academy Courses

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

A Holistic Go Experience

Explore Go's integrated developer experience, from IDE to security, and discover the Go Team's vision for future enhancements and complete, developer-centric solutions.

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

Safe, Fast, and Easy - Building a Plugin System with WebAssembly

Learn to build a secure, efficient plugin system using WebAssembly and WASI, overcoming traditional challenges in Go program extensibility.

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

A Journey Through Integration Testing with Go - What Could Go Wrong?

Explore integration testing in Go using TestContainers-go and go-test-report, addressing challenges and solutions encountered during implementation for a smart city project.

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

Kraken Wrangling for Dummies - Go Module Dependency Management at Scale

Exploring Perseus: A tool for managing Go module dependencies at scale, addressing challenges in code navigation and version tracking for large-scale projects.

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

Go, the Data Engineer's Missing Tool?

Explore Go's potential in data engineering, focusing on serialization, efficient processing, and reliability. Learn about challenges and benefits of introducing Go to this domain.

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

Test Go Service Integration Using Contracts

Learn how CrowdStrike uses Contract Testing for Go HTTP/Message services to efficiently test microservice integrations without costly deployments or brittle environments.

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

Aerospace Go

Explore Go's applications in aerospace, from orbital simulations to rocket engine testing. Learn how this language is revolutionizing space technology development in Argentina.

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

Performance in a High-throughput SQL Database

Explore profiling techniques and performance optimization for SQL databases in Go, featuring insights from DoltHub's journey in building a Git-like database with MySQL-level speed.

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

Hello World, from the Code to the Screen

Explore the Go compiler's inner workings, from source code to executable, using a "Hello World" example. Gain insights into each step of the compilation process.

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