Mastering Advanced Go (Golang) for Modern Applications
Workshop Duration: 2 Days
Overview: This 2-day workshop delves deep into advanced Go concepts like concurrency, performance tuning, security, and microservices. It includes practical sessions to reinforce learning.
Target Audience: Intermediate to advanced Go developers with knowledge of Go syntax, standard library, and basic concurrency
Takeaways:
- Workshop slides and reference materials
- Access to further resources, including advanced research and tools
- Certificate of Completion
Mode: Online/Offline
Course Outline
Day 1: Advanced Concurrency, Performance, and Error Handling
1. Advanced Concurrency Patterns in Go
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Understanding Goroutines and Channels Deeply
- Worker Pool Pattern for Efficient Parallel Processing
- Select Statement for Multiplexing Channels
- Context Package for Managing Goroutines Lifecycle
- Hands-on: Implementing a Worker Pool to handle concurrent tasks efficiently
2. Optimizing Go Performance
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Profiling Go Applications with pprof
- Memory Management and Garbage Collection Internals
- Techniques for Reducing Memory Footprint
- Optimizing for Latency and Throughput in High-Load Systems
- Hands-on: Profiling and optimizing a Go application using pprof
3. Error Handling and Advanced Debugging in Go
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Idiomatic Error Handling Patterns in Go: Error Wrapping and Unwrapping
- Introduction to errors.Is and errors.As for Detailed Error Management
- Error Aggregation in Concurrent Programs
- Debugging Techniques with Delve and Advanced panic Recovery
- Hands-on: Implement advanced error handling in a Go API and debug complex issues using Delve
4. Goroutine Leak Detection and Prevention
- Duration: 1 hours
- Content:
- Identifying Goroutine Leaks with Static Analysis
- Common Sources of Leaks in Large Applications
- Techniques to Avoid Leaks in Long-Running Go Services
- Hands-on: Build a tool to monitor goroutine leaks in a Go application
Day 2: Go Ecosystem, Microservices, and Secure Go Applications
1. Building Microservices with Go
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Microservices Architecture with Go: Choosing the Right Framework (Go Kit, gRPC)
- Creating REST APIs with Go’s Standard Library vs. Using Frameworks (Gin, Echo)
- gRPC in Go: Setup, Protobuf, and Efficient Inter-Service Communication
- Hands-on: Build a Go-based microservice with REST and gRPC endpoints
2. Go Modules and Dependency Management
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Go Modules Deep Dive: Managing Dependencies in Large Projects
- Versioning, Semantic Import Paths, and Best Practices for Module Creation
- Handling Private Repositories in Go Modules
- Hands-on: Refactor a large Go project to use Go Modules effectively
3. Secure Go Programming
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Security Best Practices in Go: Handling Sensitive Data
- Using Go’s crypto Package for Encryption and Authentication
- Preventing SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Writing Secure APIs: OAuth2 and JWT in Go
- Hands-on: Secure a Go API with JWT authentication and data encryption
4. Testing and Benchmarking in Go
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Content:
- Writing Effective Unit Tests with Go’s testing Package
- Advanced Testing Techniques: Table-Driven Tests, Mocking, and Stubbing
- Performance Testing and Benchmarking with testing.B
- Hands-on: Write unit tests, integration tests, and benchmarks for a Go service
5. Final Project: Building and Deploying a Secure, Performant Go Microservice
- Duration: 2 hours
- Content:
- Requirements: Build a performant microservice handling concurrent requests
- Use Go’s concurrency primitives
- Implement error handling and logging
- Secure the service with JWT and TLS
- Hands-on: Participants build, test, and deploy the microservice
- Requirements: Build a performant microservice handling concurrent requests