Gopher Academy Courses

Writing a Static Analyzer for Go Code

Learn to create custom static analyzers for Go, catching preventable errors before they reach production and enhancing code quality through automated checks.

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

The What's, Why's, and How's of Running WebAssembly in Go

Explore WebAssembly integration in Go: its purpose, benefits, and implementation techniques. Learn about performance, sandbox interactions, and building effective Go applications with WebAssembly.

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

Go at Mainframe Scale

Scaling Go services at Capital One: Processing massive account data, overcoming challenges, and transitioning from mainframes to modern distributed systems in AWS.

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

Go Profiling and Observability from Scratch

Explore Go profiling and observability tools to optimize performance, reduce costs, and debug issues. Learn about runtime internals, built-in profilers, and advanced techniques for efficient Go application development.

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

Generics

Go team members discuss the introduction of generics in Go 1.18, providing guidance on their effective use and impact on code readability, maintainability, and performance.

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

Building a Game Engine for 300 DEFCON Hackers to Smash

Building a custom game engine for a narrative-driven CTF at DEFCON, enabling interactive gameplay for 300+ hackers with real-time communication, scoring, and challenges.

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

Safety Not Guaranteed - Calling Windows APIs Using Unsafe and Syscall

Explore Windows API integration in Go using unsafe and syscall packages. Learn DLL loading, struct mapping, and API result conversion while avoiding common pitfalls.

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

The Fundamentals of OpenTelemetry

Hands-on tutorial exploring OpenTelemetry fundamentals, distributed tracing, and instrumentation through live coding of a client/server system for effective issue root-cause analysis.

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

Go Make Something Real - The Potential for Go on the Factory Floor

Exploring Go's potential in industrial automation: secure DevOps for factories and critical infrastructure, with real-world examples of microservice architectures in heavy industrial environments.

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

Optimizing Performance Using a VM and Go Plugins

Explore formula evaluation optimization techniques using virtual machines and Go plugins for massive scale performance improvements in spreadsheet-like systems.

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

Implementing Faster Defers

Explore Go's defer statement, its implementation, and recent optimizations. Learn about performance improvements, comparisons with other languages, and future optimization possibilities.

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

Tracing Go Programs with eBPF

Explore eBPF for tracing Go programs, uncovering runtime secrets and leveraging Linux's powerful tracing mechanism to enhance Go development and debugging capabilities.

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

Write Once, Use Many - A Handy Package to Call Internal HTTP APIs

Explore a powerful package for consistent, simple, and maintainable internal HTTP API calls in Go, developed at Bitly for efficient service-to-service communication.

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

Building an FM Radio Station with Go

Explore building an FM radio station using Go, covering radio wave basics, broadcasting techniques, and system components like Raspberry Pi and FM transmitters.

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

Deterministically Debugging Go Programs

Explore deterministic debugging techniques for Go, addressing flickering tests and elusive bugs to enhance code reliability and troubleshooting efficiency.

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