Gopher Academy Courses

Automatically Instrument Your Go Source Code with Orchestrion

Explore Orchestrion, an extensible tool for automatic Go code instrumentation. Learn about parsing, code analysis, distributed tracing, and using annotations for cross-cutting concerns.

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

High-Assurance Go Cryptography - Ensuring Safety in Cryptographic Libraries

Explore techniques for ensuring safety and reliability in Go's cryptography standard library, including testing, fuzzing, and formal proofs.

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

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

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

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

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