Gopher Academy Courses

When Toy Languages Grow Up

Join Gopher Academy's session with Linus Lee, exploring the creation and evolution of personal programming languages. Learn to build your own in under an hour.

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

Writing a Static Analyzer for Go Code

Learn to write a static analyzer for Go code with Gopher Academy. In less than an hour, master error prevention and bug detection techniques.

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

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

Learn to incorporate WebAssembly into your Go programs with Connor Hicks' Gopher Academy talk. Understand its uses, performance, and interaction with the host system in under an hour.

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

Go at Mainframe Scale

Learn how to transition to writing Go services with practical insights from Capital One's experience of creating a distributed system. Less than 1-hour workload.

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

Go Profiling and Observability from Scratch

Learn to optimize and debug Go applications with Gopher Academy's talk, covering CPU, Memory, Block, Mutex, and Goroutine Profilers, Runtime Tracer, eBPF, Linux Perf, and Delve.

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

Generics

Learn about the new generic functions and types in Go's 1.18 release from Gopher Academy. Gain insights on their optimal use for maintainable, high-performing code.

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

Building a Game Engine for 300 DEFCON Hackers to Smash

Learn from Gopher Academy how Alex and Kevin built a unique game engine for a narrative-driven capture-the-flag event, attracting 300+ top hackers.

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

Safety Not Guaranteed - Calling Windows APIs Using Unsafe and Syscall

Learn to interact with Windows APIs using Go's unsafe and syscall packages in this short program by Gopher Academy. Master DLL loading, C-like struct mapping, and memory management.

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

The Fundamentals of OpenTelemetry

Learn OpenTelemetry fundamentals with Gopher Academy. Understand distributed tracing, create instrumentation, and set up deployments in less than an hour.

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

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

Explore the potential of Go in industrial automation with Gopher Academy. Learn about secure DevOps workflows, type safety, and goroutines in under an hour.

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

Optimizing Performance Using a VM and Go Plugins

Dive into optimizing performance at scale with Gopher Academy's brief program. Learn to design an Intermediate Language, build a Virtual Machine, and use Go Plugin system. Boost performance and reduce complexity.

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

Implementing Faster Defers

Explore Go's defer statement, its comparison with other languages, and recent optimizations in Go 1.14 with Dan Scales at Gopher Academy. Less than 1-hour workload.

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

Go is Not Just on Your Server, it's in Your Browser - Intro to Vugu

Explore the use of Go in UI space with Vugu, a reactive web Go programming library, in this short program by Gopher Academy. Learn about its origin, technology stack, and tooling.

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

Tracing Go Programs with eBPF

Explore eBPF's application in tracing Go programs with Gopher Academy. Uncover Go runtime secrets in under an hour.

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

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

Learn to make consistent, simple, and maintainable internal HTTP API calls with a package introduced by Bitly, in less than an hour with Gopher Academy.

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