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Why Gopher Guides?

Virtual experience
We have invested significant resources into designing a perfect experience for our virtual training engagements.

CUSTOMIZED CONTENT
With our custom content delivery system, you will be able to follow along as the instructor introduces each concept for your customized Go training.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
We have years of experience in delivering customized, virtual, Go training. Let us make your engagement a success today!

UPDATED CURRICULUM
Our curriculum is continuously updated using best practices and has been validated in some of the largest companies in the world.

DESIGNER MODULES
Each module is designed to send you away ready to tackle your biggest Go initiatives.

QUICK SOLUTION
With virtual training, a prominent member of the Go community leads your workshop to help get your team up to speed in as little as 2 to 4 days.

10,000+ Students

100+ Training Modules

98% Happiness
Gopher Guides Instructor Team
The Gopher Guides instructor team includes some of the most respected and accomplished leaders in the programming community.

Mark Bates
Cofounder/Instructor
Mark specializes in GO Fundamentals, Advanced GO, Web Development and Buffalo.

Cory LaNou
Cofounder/Instructor
Cory specializes in GO Fundamentals, Advanced GO, Distributed Systems and gRPC.
Virtual Courses


Intro to
Intro to Go is designed to get existing software teams with little to no Go experience ready to write production ready code.


Advanced Development
Advanced Go is designed for software teams that have some existing Go knowledge and experience.


Testing in
This course will take you step by step from writing your first test to testing concurrent code, stubbing objects, automating tests, and more.


Profiling and Optimizing
Go comes with some amazing tooling. In this course, you'll learn how to put it to use and make your Go code perform faster and more efficiently.


gRPC in
Learn how easy it is to write a highly scalable distributed system that enforces type safety, SLA's, and more.


Mastering
Looking to go from zero to hero in a short time? This course is designed for senior developers to jumpstart your Go project.


Custom Courses
Don't see what you are looking for? We can design a course specifically for your teams needs.
The GopherGuides held a full week of informative and engaging training at The New York Times that left our engineers excited and empowered to use Go. The classes were tailored to our needs so all levels of engineer came out with some new bits of Go wisdom. We at NYT look forward to using GopherGuides for future training!
- JP Robinson -
New York Times
Cory is excellent faciltator and proved to be extremely knowledgeable in Golang. I'd honestly take this session again. He is engaging and able to cover topics pertinent to specific instances.
- Workshop Attendee -
Global Fortune 500 Company
I had a basic understanding of Go coming into this session. After this training I am able to understand how to apply topics such as concurrency and gRPC which will be helpful for my team.
- Workshop Attendee -
Global Fortune 500 Company
This course provided experience and exposure to what Go can really do. I feel this is what most other training courses lack.
- Workshop Attendee -
Global Fortune 500 Company

Our courses aren’t just built to teach
They are built to create change. Our curriculum is continuously updated using best practices and has been validated in some of the largest companies in the world. Each module is designed to send you away ready to tackle your biggest Go initiatives. With virtual training, a prominent member of the Go community leads your workshop to help get your team up to speed in as little as 2 to 4 days.
Latest Blog

Go (golang) Slog Package
Overview
In Go (golang) release 1.21, the slog package will be added to the standard library. It includes many useful features such as structured logging as well as level logging. In this article, we will talk about the history of logging in Go, the challenges faced, and how the new slog
package will help address those challenges.

The Slices Package
Overview
In release 1.21, the slices package will be officially added to the standard library. It includes many useful functions for sorting, managing, and searching slices. In this article, we will cover the more commonly used functions included in the Slices package.

Masters Style Go Courses
Overview
After training for over four years, and recently enrolling in my own Masters degree program, I've married both of my passions and I'm excited to announce our new Masters Style Go Courses!