Advanced Topics
Explore generics, reflection, design patterns, and performance optimization techniques
Section Progress
1. Generics
Master Go generics for writing flexible, reusable, type-safe code
2. Reflection
Master Go's reflection package for runtime type inspection and manipulation
3. Design Patterns in Go
Master Go-idiomatic design patterns for building maintainable, scalable applications
4. Performance & Profiling
Learn to optimize Go applications and use profiling tools to identify bottlenecks
5. Build Tags & Constraints
Master build tags and constraints for platform-specific and conditional compilation in Go
6. CGo - C Interoperability
Learn how to call C code from Go and expose Go functions to C for high-performance integrations
7. Atomic Operations in Go
Master the sync/atomic package to build lock-free algorithms and reason about memory ordering guarantees.
8. Race Detection in Go
Master Go's race detector to build reliable concurrent systems and eliminate subtle bugs before they reach production.
9. Dependency Injection in Go
Design maintainable services with dependency injection patterns, manual wiring strategies, and code-generation tools.
10. Plugin Architecture in Go
Build extensible Go applications with dynamic plugins, RPC-based extensions, and sandboxed execution models.
11. Memory Optimization in Go
Optimize allocations, pooling, and garbage collector behavior to reduce memory usage and improve performance at scale.
12. Compiler Optimizations in Go
Leverage Go compiler features like inlining, escape analysis, and bounds check elimination to write faster code.
13. Fuzz Testing
Find bugs with fuzzing: native Go fuzzing, corpus generation, and security testing
14. Advanced Type System
Deep dive into type aliases, embedding rules, method sets, and interface satisfaction edge cases.
15. Security Best Practices
Secure your Go applications: input validation, secrets management, and OWASP Top 10
16. Observability and Monitoring
Monitor production systems: OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and metrics collection
17. Go Memory Model
Understand happens-before guarantees, synchronization primitives, and memory ordering for safe concurrency.
18. Distributed Systems Patterns
Build resilient distributed systems: consensus algorithms, service mesh, and circuit breakers
19. Go Runtime Internals
Deep dive into Go's runtime: GMP scheduler, garbage collection, stack management, and performance tuning
20. Docker for Go Developers
Container deployment strategies, multi-stage builds, optimization, and production patterns
21. Unsafe Operations
Advanced memory manipulation: unsafe.Pointer, memory layout control, and zero-copy techniques
22. Go Assembly Programming
Optimize critical paths with assembly: Go assembly syntax, SIMD operations, and performance tuning
23. Section Exercises: Advanced Go Techniques
Practice exercises covering generics, reflection, design patterns, and performance optimization
24. Section Project: Distributed Job Queue System
Build a production-grade distributed job processing system with generics and advanced patterns