Gopher Academy Courses

What Could Go Wrong

Explore common Go programming pitfalls and learn from Timehop Engineering's mistakes, including typed nils, bloated interfaces, and runaway goroutines.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Go Kit - A Standard Library for Distributed Programming

Explore Go kit: a toolkit for building scalable, service-oriented architectures in Go. Learn about its goals, components, and practical applications in modern enterprise development.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Practical Guide to Preventing Deadlocks and Leaks in Go

Practical guidelines for preventing deadlocks and leaks in Go applications using CSP, based on experience processing high-volume data. Covers design tips, workflow structures, and best practices for efficient concurrency.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Go GC - Solving the Latency Problem

Go 1.5's new low-latency concurrent garbage collector: solving performance issues, reducing pauses, and enabling Go's growth in critical applications.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

The Evolution of Go

Explore Go's evolution, design principles, and influences with Robert Griesemer, drawing insights from programming language history and development philosophies.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Keynote

Explore Go's development process, coordination, and community expectations with Russ Cox's insightful keynote on balancing language evolution and stability.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• 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
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

System Programming for Real-time Video Capture in Go

Explore Go's capabilities for real-time video capture using system programming. Learn to interact with Linux video API, control hardware, and stream image data for webcam applications.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Secure Coding in Go - Avoiding Common Vulnerabilities

Learn secure coding practices in Go, focusing on common vulnerabilities like injections and XSS. Discover best practices, encryption basics, and proactive security measures for robust application development.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

TinyGo - Getting the Upper Hen

Explore TinyGo for microcontrollers: learn to collect henhouse data, use WiFi communication, and build dashboards for remote monitoring. Unleash creativity with Go in small-scale projects.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

CGO-less Foreign Function Interface with WebAssembly

Explore CGO-less Foreign Function Interface using WebAssembly in Go. Learn about wazero, a pure Go WebAssembly runtime, and its implementation for secure and flexible cross-language function calls.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Exploring Network Programming by Building a Toxiproxy Clone

Explore network programming in Go by building a Toxiproxy clone. Learn about sockets, channels, goroutines, and TCP stream manipulation for chaos testing and application resilience.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How to Build a Distributed System - and Should You?

Explore building an eventually consistent distributed system using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, LevelDB, and Prometheus. Learn key concepts, implementation challenges, and lessons from real-world deployment across multiple countries.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How Apache Beam Makes Your Data Processing Go

Explore Apache Beam's Go SDK for efficient distributed data processing, overcoming Go's unique challenges using reflection, interfaces, and generics for scalable pipeline execution.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Collect First, Ask Questions Later

Explore techniques for creating debug archives in Go systems, enhancing debugging capabilities through state snapshots and real-world examples from Fleet's production code.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk