Go Roadmap for Backend and Cloud

A small, fast language behind Docker, Kubernetes and much of modern cloud infrastructure.

8 milestones · ~110 hours total

1. 1

   Tour of Go

   ~8h

   Install Go, modules, variables, control flow, functions, slices, maps and structs.

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2. 2

   Types and interfaces

   ~12h

   Methods, interfaces, embedding, errors as values and idiomatic error handling.

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3. 3

   Concurrency

   ~16h

   Goroutines, channels, select, sync.WaitGroup, mutexes and context for cancellation.

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4. 4

   Standard library

   ~12h

   net/http, encoding/json, io, testing and log/slog, which cover most of what small services need.

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5. 5

   Build an HTTP service

   ~20h

   A REST API with routing, middleware, validation and graceful shutdown.

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6. 6

   Data and testing

   ~14h

   database/sql with PostgreSQL, table-driven tests, benchmarks and the race detector.

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7. 7

   Ship it

   ~12h

   Static binaries, small Docker images, CI, configuration and basic observability.

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8. 8

   Read real Go

   ~16h

   Read the source of a popular Go CLI or tool and contribute a small fix or doc change.

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