What you'll learn

Evaluating a new language for your next backend project means cutting through hype to understand what it's actually good at — and whether your team's problems are the ones it was built to solve. In this course, Go: The Big Picture, you'll gain the ability to evaluate Go as a real option for your next project. First, you'll explore the Go platform and the kinds of applications it excels at. Next, you'll discover Go's core language characteristics and concurrency model. Finally, you'll learn how AI-assisted tools fit into a modern Go development workflow. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of the Go platform and ecosystem needed to determine when Go is the right technology choice for your team.