Continuous Learning: Golang

Learning Golang for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering.

Why Go for Ops and SRE?

• Open Source
• Simple, reliable and efficient
• Testing, benchmarking and profiling built-in
• Good standard libraries
• Concurrency via goroutines and channels
• Google's definition SRE is a software engineer running operations
• SREs normally write tools and projects which are more complex than 'scripts' - let's eliminate real toils! :P
• Go in production at Google and outside!

Go Modules

• Aim to solve problems related to dependency management, version selection and reproducible builds
• Enable users to run Go code outside of GOPATH

Go Doc

• To install run: $ go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc
• Launch the docs locally by running: $ godoc -http :8000
• http://localhost:8000/pkg: see all the packages installed

Go Linting: golangci-lint

# Ubuntu 
sudo snap install golangci-lint --edge
golangci-lint run

Learning Resources and Credits

• https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests
• https://awesome-go.com/
• https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/blob/master/docs/tools.md
• https://github.com/go-modules-by-example/index/blob/master/009_submodules/README.md