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William Kennedy
ArdanLabs (www.ardanlabs.com)
bill@ardanlabs.com
We have taught classes to thousands of students for over the past two years and all around the world.
Our classes are perfect for both experienced and beginning engineers. We start every class from the beginning and get very detailed about the internals, mechanics, specification, guidelines, best practices and design philosophies. We cover a lot about “if performance matters” with a focus on mechanical sympathy, data oriented design, decoupling and writing production software.
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Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Although it borrows ideas from existing languages, it has a unique and simple nature that make Go programs different in character from programs written in other languages. It balances the capabilities of a low-level systems language with some high-level features you see in modern languages today. This creates a programming environment that allows you to be incredibly productive, performant and fully in control; in Go, you can write less code and do so much more.
Go is the fusion of performance and productivity wrapped in a language that software developers can learn, use and understand. Go is not C, yet we have many of the benefits of C with the benefits of higher level programming languages.
Learn More - Go Team
Getting Started In Go - Aarti Parikh
The material has been designed to be taught in a classroom environment. The code is well commented but missing some of the contextual concepts and ideas that will be covered in class. Students with the following minimal background will get the most out of the class.
- Studied CS in school or has a minimum of two years of experience programming full time professionally.
- Familiar with structural and object oriented programming styles.
- Has worked with arrays, lists, queues and stacks.
- Understands processes, threads and synchronization at a high level.
- Operating Systems
- Has worked with a command shell.
- Knows how to maneuver around the file system.
- Understands what environment variables are.
Please check out this page of important reading. You will find articles and videos around mechanical sympathy, data-oriented design, Go runtime and optimizations and articles about the history of computing.
The following is a set of tasks that can be done prior to showing up for class. We will also do this in class if anyone has not completed it. However, the more attendees that complete this ahead of time the more time we have to cover additional training material.
We use a slack channel to share links, code, and examples during the training. This is free. This is also the same slack community you will use after training to ask for help and interact with may Go experts around the world in the community.
- Using the following link, fill out your name and email address: https://gophersinvite.herokuapp.com/
- Check your email, and follow the link to the slack application.
- Join the training channel by clicking on this link: https://gophers.slack.com/messages/training/
- Click the “Join Channel” button at the bottom of the screen.
I do not recommend using homebrew or apt-get.
https://www.goinggo.net/2016/05/installing-go-and-your-workspace.html
Installing Go may not be needed if you choose to use Docker. With running a gotraining container, you can download the training material at any location on your disk without having to set $GOPATH. And you can still access (e.g. for editing) the training materials locally.
git clone https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining.git
cd gotraining
NOTE: This assumes you have Git installed. If you don’t, you can find the installation instructions here: https://git-scm.com/
To build and run docker container to start your training right away, see here.
Visual Studio Code
https://code.visualstudio.com/Updates
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-go
Sublime
http://www.sublimetext.com/
https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime
http://www.wolfe.id.au/2015/03/05/using-sublime-text-for-go-development/
VIM
http://www.vim.org/download.php
http://farazdagi.com/blog/2015/vim-as-golang-ide/
Atom
https://atom.io/
https://github.com/joefitzgerald/go-plus
LiteIDE
http://sourceforge.net/projects/liteide/files/
Emacs
https://github.com/creack/dotfiles
For a full list of editors, see the wiki: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/IDEsAndTextEditorPlugins
While many of the examples can be done using the online playground (http://play.golang.org), some may find it easier to complete them with their local editor. To do so, you will want to load the training material locally to your machine. From a command prompt, issue the following commands:
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/ardanlabs
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ardanlabs
git clone https://github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining.gitNOTE: This assumes you have Git installed. If you don’t, you can find the installation instructions here: https://git-scm.com/
http://golang.org/
https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
http://www.goinggo.net/
go get github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining
William Kennedy (@goinggodotnet)
William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Studio in Miami, Florida, a mobile, web, and systems development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.
Writing
Going Go
Running MongoDB Queries Concurrently With Go
Go In Action
Articles
IT World Canada
Video
GopherCon India - Go In Action
GolangUK - Dependency Management
GopherCon 2014 - Building an analytics engine
GothamGo - Error Handling in Go
Vancouver Meetup - Decoupling From Change
London Meetup - Mechanical Sympathy
GoSF Meetup - The Nature of Constants in Go
Bangalore Meetup - OOP in Go
Vancouver Meetup - Compiler Optimizations in Go
Podcasts
Your Tech Interviews are Scaring Away Brilliant People
The 4 Cornerstones of Writing Software
Bill Kennedy on Mechanical Sympathy
Daniel Whitenack (@dwhitena)
Daniel Whitenack is a PhD trained data scientist/engineer with industry experience developing data science applications for large and small companies, including predictive models, dashboards, recommendation engines, and more. Daniel has spoken at conferences around the world (Gopherfest, GopherCon, and more), maintains the Go kernel for Jupyter, and is actively helping to organize contributions to various open source data science projects.
Writing
Data Dan
Elephantine Analytics
Articles
O'Reilly Data Blog
Video
GopherCon 2016 - Go for Data Science
Podcasts
Go Time - Episode 4
John Gosset (@jgosset_)
John is a consultant and software developer based in Montreal, Canada. He works on server software and embedded systems, and has worked with organizations large and small in both the public and private sectors - from the Canadian government and FinTech companies to small carpet manufacturers in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. He is also a contractor for RedHat, and volunteers with the Software Carpentry Foundation to help research scientists learn programming fundamentals. He believes coding is a useful skill for anyone to have, and is passionate about helping make it more accessible to everybody.
Video
GopherCon Brazil - Go Scratch That Itch
Ian Molee (@ianfoo)
"The unflappable @goinggodotnet demystifying Go stacktraces at #ultimatego day 3 at @tune. Thanks for leveling us up."
Camilo Aguilar (@c4milo)
"Holy cow, the best lighting talk I have ever seen about mechanical sympathy by @goinggodotnet. Here at #gophercon"
Jessie Frazelle (@frazelledazzell)
"@goinggodotnet you were amazing!!! So enthusiastic!!! Thanks for doing this for everyone!"
Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)
"Day 1 of the [Ultimate] Go workshop was outstanding! Big shoutout to @intel, @golangbridge, and @goinggodotnet for bringing this to Portland."
Katrina Owen (@kytrinyx)
"OH: "You thought you knew Go..." (You do Go? You want to do Go?) You should take this workshop. Seriously.) "
Ian Molee (@ianfoo) "If you're at @GopherCon, get yourself to a session with @goinggodotnet. Superb! Pretty sure his pic appears with the definition of "dynamo.""
Matt Oswalt (@Mierdin)
"Should be mentioned that though I am no expert, I have been using Go for about a year - and this meetup is kicking my ass."
Ana-Maria Lazar, Software Engineer at Sainsbury's
"Intensive crash course in Go that literally takes you to a whole new level. Not only Bill provides lots of examples and exercises to familiarize yourself faster with the language but there is also a lot of information that can be applied to other languages as well. Perfect combination!"
Greg Hammond, Founder & CEO at Best Option Trading
"Bill helped me learn enough Go to work with him and his team to take a program with a lot of complexity, accumulated over years, and make it into an enterprise product. As architect, he made it more extensible, tested, and created an external API. Bill has a gift for writing readable code that is easy to reason about. He demonstrates coding restraint by favoring code that is maintainable, rather than relying upon overly clever solutions. At the same time, he is a performance hawk, always thinking about how to cut milliseconds from runtime. When I began the project with Bill, I was under pressure from both schedule and cost perspectives. He put in extra effort at the end of the project to deliver what I needed. I highly recommend Bill for his well-written book, his 'Ultimate Go' course, and development work through Ardan Labs."
Susan Dady, Software Engineer - GE Digital
"Rarely will you come across a course as worthwhile as this one. I learned many things relevant and useful in my daily work and William's energy kept me engaged. I came back to work excited to get coding in Go."
Paul Garvey, Software Engineer - GE Digital
"Looking back I am grateful I took the GoLang training course. I had planned to just buy a few books and learned it on my own. In retrospect that would have been a bad decision as I would missed out on all the pitfalls, best practices, practical exercises and discussions the instructor imparted from his years of experience in the field, writing a book and blogging with other gophers. In the end I felt I learn more in 3 days then I could reading books and learning GoLang on my own and all my colleagues who took the course all share this view. We also share the view that Bill the instructor brought an enthusiasm and energy to the course that made a really technical course easy to learn. I would recommend anyone who want to learn Go to sign up with Mr Kennedy. At the end of the course you will feel like you are ready to rewrite all your old apps in Go :-)"
Richard Stanley, Software Engineer - GE Digital
"Not only does Bill deeply understands the technical details of Go, he also can explain them in an effective, enthusiastic manner that helped me retain somewhat dry material. His passion for the language and its capabilities are obvious through out his training."
Shalab Goel, Ph.D.
"It was a pleasure taking this course — learning lot of "dry" stuff in such animated and enthusiastic environment. The exercises were spot on for building what you called as "memory muscle. I have good amount of background in conventional multithreaded and distributed environments, but I have not put that knowledge to use more recently; so it was good refresher from that point of view as well. From Yuck to completely Wow-ed is how I will like to describe my respect for Go within three days. I knew nothing about GO before the course."
Geoff Clitheroe (@gclitheroe)
"Your training is awesome! Myself and three colleagues recently caught variations of the training at GopherCon and OSCON. We all thought the Bootcamp was the best thing at any of these conferences (and I went to both). Awesome work to Bill for presenting and anyone involved in developing the training. I really liked the structure, emphasis on deeper understanding, me doing a small number of examples to emphasize this, and general content. Night and day to other training which is to often just watching someone else live code. Great work."
ACL Services (@ACLServices)
"I'd just like to thank you again for just a phenomenal training session. The feedback from everyone was overwhelmingly positive. You probably could tell first hand that there were skeptics at first, but you've turned many into golang converts and we are really excited in growing golang adoption internally."
Joshua Shuster (@naysaier)
"I would consider Ardan Studio's 3 day course to be invaluable. Bill and his staff, being some of the foremost authorities in the Go language, were able to make many of the complex go topics understandable. Covering everything from memory management, all the way up to building concurrency programs and web API's. It has given me the knowledge to write idiomatic Go, and make the best use of its features. I would highly their courses to anyone new to Go, or to anyone wanting to widen their existing knowledge."
Neeru Dwivedi
"I attended the one day workshop by Bill Kennedy from Ardan Labs. I was in for a surprise as before the workshop I was concerned whether I would understand concepts and whether I would be able to follow along. Bill has this wonderful way of explaining concepts and his knowledge on the concepts is so good that, I didn't feel that I was learning something new & complicated. The Go Workshop got me started on the Go language. This workshop is perfect for beginners and anyone who wants to learn more about Go. I highly recommend this."
Todd Rafferty (@webrat)
"I highly recommend William Kennedy / Ardan Lab for Go Training. William is extremely passionate about the Go language and his energy feeds into his training. Very professional, very informative. My favorite section of his training, if I had to pick, was the segment on MultiWriters. I highly recommend a 3 day course, over a 2 day course. Even after the classes were over, William was always responsive with additional questions via various social media channels."
Georgi Knox (@GeorgiCodes)
"The Intro to Go Workshop enabled me to come into class with very little knowledge of Go and leave having a firm grasp of the key concepts of the language. Each topic was followed up with hands-on coding problems which helped to solidify what I was learning. My teacher Bill was not only approachable, but very excited about the language and his enthusiasm was contagious. I enjoyed that we talked about some of the lower level implementation details of Go which was something that I had found lacking from some books on the language. Overall I would highly recommend this workshop to anyone looking to learn Go quickly and effectively."
Jackie Heitzer (@JackieHeitzer)
"Great course and a perfect introduction to Go. Bill is very friendly and extremely knowledgeable about the Go language and I am excited to speak with him about Go in the future. The training had an excellent format with hands on coding examples. After the class I feel as though I have a better understanding of the key concepts, especially how pointers work. I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning more about Go."
If you are interested in holding an event in your area please let me know. I will work with you and your organization to help make it happen. I can talk in person or over Google Hangout.
Type Ultimate Venue City, ST Month Trainer Url
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Public Adv Go Golab Florance, IT January Bill Kennedy http://golab.io/
Corporate Go GNS Science Wellington, NZ January Bill Kennedy
GoBridge Go Framingham Framingham, MA February Bill Kennedy https://www.bridgetroll.org/events/329
Public Adv Go GopherCon India Pune, India February Bill Kennedy http://www.gophercon.in/go-workshop/
Public Data GopherCon India Pune, India February Daniel Whitenack
Public Adv Go SUNY Potsdam Potsdam, NY March Bill Kennedy
Public Go Fire Tavern Atlanta, GA March Bill Kennedy https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ultimate-go-atlanta-march-2017-tickets-31036843033
Corporate Go Jazz Networks London, England March Bill Kennedy
Public Adv Go GDG DevFest Siberia, Russia April Bill Kennedy
Public Adv Go China Conference ShangHai, China April Bill Kennedy
Public Adv Go Singapore Conference Singapore May Bill Kennedy
Public Adv Go GopherCon Denver, CO July Bill Kennedy
Public Data GopherCon Denver, CO July Daniel Whitenack
Type Ultimate Venue City, ST Month Trainer Url
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Corporate Go Capital One Richmond, VA January Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go BOT Miami, FL January Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go CISCO Lawrenceville, GA February Bill Kennedy
Public Go Bol Utrecht, Amsterdam March Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go GE San Ramon, CA March Bill Kennedy
Free Go WWG SF, CA March Bill Kennedy
Public Go Fidelity SLC, UT March Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go SAS Cary, NC March Bill Kennedy
Public Go Ardan Minneapolis, MN March Cory LaNou
Public Go Minio SF, CA April Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Salesforce Dublin, Ireland April Kevin Gillette
Corporate Go CapitalOne Richmond, VA April Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go HP Enterprise Seattle, WA May Cory LaNou
Corporate Go CISCO Lawrenceville, GA May Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Rackspace San Antonio, TX May Bill Kennedy
Public Go OSCON Portland, OR May Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Intel Hillsboro, OR May Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Staples Framingham, MA May Bill Kennedy
Public Go Halio London, England June Bill Kennedy
Public Go Shutterfly Phoenix, AZ June Bill Kennedy
Public Go GopherCon Denver, CO July Cory LaNou
Public Adv Go GopherCon Denver, CO July Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Red Ventures South Carolina August Bill Kennedy
Public Go GolangUK London, England August Cory LaNou
Public Adv Go GolangUK London, England August Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Tune Seattle, WA August Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Nordstroms Seattle, WA September Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Viacom NYC, NY September Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go CapitalOne McLean, VA September Bill Kennedy
Free Go WWG London, England October Bill Kennedy https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/8373-women-who-go-workshop-with-bill-kennedy
Public Adv Go Rackspace SF, CA October Bill Kennedy https://www.eventbrite.com/e/advanced-ultimate-go-san-francisco-oct-2016-tickets-26919899143
Free Go WWG SF, CA October Bill Kennedy http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Go/events/232670825
Corporate Go Traderev Toronto, Canada October Bill Kennedy http://www.helpingcanadacode.com
Public Go dotGo Paris, France October Ernesto Jimenez
Public Kubernetes OSCON London, England October Brian Ketelsen http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-eu/public/schedule/detail/54454
Corporate Go Centralway Zürich, Switzerland October Bill Kennedy
Public Go GothamGo NYC, NY November Bill Kennedy
Public Go Dev Fest NYC, NY November Bill Kennedy https://generalassemb.ly/education/devfestnyc-ultimate-go-training/new-york-city/30237
Public Data GDG DevFest Siberia, Russia November Daniel Whitenack https://devfest.gdg.org.ru/en/
Corporate Go Hootsuite Vancouver, Canada November Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go CISCO San Jose, CA November Cory LaNou
Corporate Go Viacom NYC, NY December Bill Kennedy
Corporate Go Intel Zapopan, Mexico December Ernesto Jimenez
2015 : 33 Events
2014 : 3 Events
William Kennedy
Ardan Studios
12973 SW 112 ST, Suite 153
Miami, FL 33186
bill@ardanlabs.com
Install Docker Toolbox
https://www.docker.com/products/docker-toolbox
Build Docker container
# current path is the source root where Dockerfile exists
docker build -t ardanlabs-gotraining .
Start Docker container
docker run -it -v "$PWD":/go/src/github.com/ardanlabs/gotraining ardanlabs-gotraining
# or start container with downloaded gotraining in the image
docker run -it ardanlabs-gotraining
Remove gotraining container and image
docker rm -f $(docker ps -a | grep ardanlabs-gotraining | awk '{print $1}')
docker rmi -f $(docker images -a | grep ardanlabs-gotraining | awk '{print $1}')
All material is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004.