Gopher Academy Courses

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

The Go Cryptography State of the Union - 2024

Discover the latest advancements in Go cryptography, including post-quantum algorithms, secure random generators, performance optimizations, SSH improvements, and package migrations from x/crypto to the standard library.

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

Automating Efficiency Improvement by Profile Guided Optimization

Discover how to optimize container utilization through Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO), reducing CPU allocation and costs. Learn implementation techniques and see how one company saved over 15000 CPU cores annually.

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

Who Tests the Tests? - Exploring Mutation Testing in Go

Explore mutation testing in Go to validate test quality, ensuring real coverage rather than superficial metrics, using AST and compiler techniques.

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

A Decade of Debugging - The Evolution of Delve

Explore the 10-year journey of Delve, from its origins at the first GopherCon to its evolution, key features, and future developments in Go debugging.

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

Go Interface Internals - Understanding Implementation and Performance

Dive into the inner workings of Go interfaces, exploring implementation mechanics, method invocations, and performance optimization techniques for efficient programming.

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

Processing Millions of Events Per Second Reliably Using Generics

Discover how to build scalable event processing systems using Go's generics, drawing from real-world experiences at Cloudflare and Twilio to handle massive data streams reliably and efficiently.

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

Building a Programmable Linux Firewall with Go Using nftables

Learn to build and manage Linux firewalls using Go and nftables, covering kernel systems, dynamic rule creation, and seamless integration with existing Go environments.

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

Advanced Generics Patterns in Go - Beyond Basic Usage

Dive into advanced Go generics patterns, exploring constraints, API ergonomics, phantom types, and efficient programming techniques for enhanced type safety and performance.

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

Go for Embedded Systems Development - From Rockets to Biomedical Applications

Explore how Go language excels in embedded systems development, from rocket motor control to biomedical applications, challenging traditional MCU programming paradigms.

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

Range Over Function Types in Go 1.23

Discover the new range over function types feature coming in Go 1.23, understanding its implementation, purpose, and practical applications in modern Go programming.

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

Embracing the Replace: Journey to Fixing the Plugin System in HashiCorp Packer

Discover how HashiCorp Packer used Go's replace directive to fix a critical plugin system issue without disrupting users, including the implementation strategy and safeguards for cloud provider plugins.

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