Gopher Academy Courses

Profiling Request Latency with Critical Path Analysis

Discover how to diagnose Go request latency issues using critical path analysis to identify Off-CPU bottlenecks without instrumentation overhead.

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

My Protobuf Module is Faster than Yours - Because I Cheated

Discover extreme optimization techniques for Go protobuf modules handling 2 trillion daily messages, revealing performance secrets and "cheating" methods for maximum efficiency.

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

Building a Decentralized Social Media App with Go and ATProto

Discover how to build decentralized social media apps using Go and ATProtocol by creating a photo-sharing platform with likes and comments for the Bluesky ecosystem.

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

Go's Trace Tooling and Concurrency

Explore Go's trace tooling through live coding, examining performance changes as concurrency levels increase while mastering goroutines and concurrency semantics.

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

Building a Self-Regulating Pressure Relief Mechanism in Go

Discover how to build automatic pressure relief systems in Go that detect resource limits, adjust non-critical workflows, and maintain system reliability in microservice architectures.

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

Porting the TypeScript Compiler to Go for a 10x Speedup V2

Discover how to port a massive 150,000+ line TypeScript compiler to Go, achieving 10x performance improvements through strategic language migration and optimization techniques.

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

Goroutines and Cells - Lessons in Goal-Directed Systems

Explore nature-inspired concurrency patterns in Go by learning from bioelectric signaling in cells to create adaptive, decentralized systems with improved efficiency and fault tolerance.

• YouTube
• 31 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

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

Go: Our Journey from Early Adopter to Mainstream and Beyond

Explore Go's evolution from niche to mainstream, including key strategies, milestones, and decisions that propelled its adoption in enterprise environments. Gain insights into Go's future trajectory.

• YouTube
• 24 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

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

Clean Up Your GOOOP - Breaking OOP Muscle Memory in Go

Explore translating OOP patterns to idiomatic Go, breaking away from traditional object-oriented constructs and embracing Go's unique approach to software design.

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