GopherCon Talks & Presentations

Gopher Academy

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
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Gopher Academy

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
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Gopher Academy

A Journey Through Integration Testing with Go - What Could Go Wrong?

Explore integration testing in Go using TestContainers-go and go-test-report, addressing challenges and solutions encountered during implementation for a smart city project.

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

Gopher Academy

Kraken Wrangling for Dummies - Go Module Dependency Management at Scale

Exploring Perseus: A tool for managing Go module dependencies at scale, addressing challenges in code navigation and version tracking for large-scale projects.

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

Gopher Academy

Go, the Data Engineer's Missing Tool?

Explore Go's potential in data engineering, focusing on serialization, efficient processing, and reliability. Learn about challenges and benefits of introducing Go to this domain.

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

Gopher Academy

Test Go Service Integration Using Contracts

Learn how CrowdStrike uses Contract Testing for Go HTTP/Message services to efficiently test microservice integrations without costly deployments or brittle environments.

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

Gopher Academy

Aerospace Go

Explore Go's applications in aerospace, from orbital simulations to rocket engine testing. Learn how this language is revolutionizing space technology development in Argentina.

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

Gopher Academy

Performance in a High-throughput SQL Database

Explore profiling techniques and performance optimization for SQL databases in Go, featuring insights from DoltHub's journey in building a Git-like database with MySQL-level speed.

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

Gopher Academy

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

Gopher Academy

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

Gopher Academy

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

Gopher Academy

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

Gopher Academy

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

Gopher Academy

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

Gopher Academy

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