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Go Backend Developer Roadmap

A program for building high-performance backend services in Go. gRPC, microservices and the Cloud Native ecosystem.

3 sections 3 topics
01

Go Fundamentals

Goroutines, channels, interfaces and idiomatic Go.

  • Syntax and type system struct, interface, generics
  • Goroutines and channels concurrency patterns, select
  • Error handling errors.Is/As, wrapping, panic/recover
  • Standard library net/http, encoding/json, context
  • Tests and benchmarks testing, table-driven, race detector
  • Modules and project layout go.mod, internal/, cmd/
02

Web & gRPC Services

HTTP APIs, gRPC, authentication and microservices.

  • HTTP framework: Gin / Echo / Chi
  • Middleware and routers
  • JWT authentication
  • gRPC and Protocol Buffers streaming, interceptors
  • Microservices and service-to-service
  • Validation and config go-playground/validator, viper
  • OpenAPI / Swagger docs
03

Cloud Native & Production

PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes and observability.

  • PostgreSQL with sqlx / GORM / Bun
  • Caching with Redis
  • Kafka / NATS message brokers
  • Docker and multi-stage builds
  • Kubernetes basics deployment, services, helm
  • Observability: Prometheus + Grafana metrics, alerts
  • Distributed tracing OpenTelemetry, Jaeger

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