Go Backend Development
Build concurrent Go services with explicit interfaces, context cancellation, HTTP contracts, tests, and observability.
- Level
- intermediate
- Duration
- 40 hours
- Access
- free
- Languages
- English
Price and billing
- Price
- Free
- Billing basis
- Not applicable
Learning outcomes
- Compile a Go program with explicit packages, types, input checks, and reproducible output.
- Write clear Go control flow and functions with explicit results and bounded behavior.
- Model Go behavior with small interfaces and validated concrete types.
- Coordinate goroutines without leaks, races, deadlocks, or unbounded waits.
- Expose a versioned Go HTTP API with validated requests and consistent responses.
- Persist Go domain state through cancellable, transaction-safe repository boundaries.
- Operate a Go service with deterministic tests, structured telemetry, and resource budgets.
- Deliver a secure concurrent Go service with durable data, observability, and rollback evidence.
Requirements
- Prior knowledge
- Basic programming experience is recommended.
- Devices
- A computer with a modern web browser is recommended for practical work.
- Software
- A modern browser with JavaScript enabled; coding tools run inside the course.
- Equipment
- No additional physical equipment is required unless a course activity explicitly states otherwise.
- Connectivity
- Internet access is required to load course content, save progress, and submit work.
- A modern browser and reliable internet connection
- Time for four to six hours of practice per week
- Completion of each server-scored unit assessment in order
Curriculum
8 units
Assessments and completion
Each of the eight units includes a server-scored assessment. Learners must score at least 70% to pass a unit; up to three attempts are allowed per assessment.
Access period
- Duration
- No fixed expiry
- Access starts
- Enrollment
Certificate
- Offer
- No certificate is currently offered.
- Issuer
- Not applicable.
- Fee policy
- No certificate
- Verification
- Not advertised.