Go for Sysadmins

Half Day Morning
(9:00 am-12:30 pm)

Thurgood Marshall North

LISA15: SRE/SWE
S2
Chris "Mac" McEniry, Sony Network Entertainment
Description: 

Every day, sysadmins find the need to build tools that get the job done in a fast and efficient way. Go is a new and powerful—yet simple—language that is an excellent fit for the needs of the harried sysadmin. This tutorial provides an introduction to Go with a focus on using it for everday tooling.

Who should attend: 

Sysadmins interested in the Go language for applications and tooling. Some experience with programming or scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby.

Take back to work: 

An introductory understanding of the Go language, and several examples of common problems to learn from.

Topics include: 
  • Understanding of the applicability of Go to everyday work
  • The Go environment and toolset
  • Go language fundamentals:
  • Control Structures
  • Functions
  • Data Types
  • Methods and Interfaces
  • Goroutines
  • Channels
  • Examples in Go:
  • Email
  • Web Server
  • Directory Tools
Additional Materials: 

A current Linux VM installed with golang from is recommended. See http://golang.org/doc/install. However, exercises can be worked on by using the packages from this site directly.

Presentation Type: 
Training