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You hit this page cause you want to be ready for high profile Golang job interview or need to structure your interview questions.
Golang is a great language for building modern web-applications based on micro-services architecture. Easy to start. Extremely convenient from DevOps perspective.
https://golang.org/
https://gobyexample.com/
If it's so easy to start how is it possible for great companies to distinguish average developer from great one? What kind of knowledge make difference if you are building services for the top internet companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google?
You should see what surrounds Golang eco-system.
Here's some areas where most Senior Developers lack of basics despite many years of experience:
- Networking (Protocols, API related HTTP Headers, Web-Socket)
- Bitwise Operators, http://www.tutorialspoint.com/go/go_bitwise_operators.htm
- Regexp
- Memory Allocation, https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
- Algorithmic thinking (Logic, Big O notation()
- Linux (File IO, commands, performace, ...)
We are all spending most of our time around APIs built by someone else. Wouldn't be great to understand underline networking protocols HTTP/2, WebSockets, WebRTC, etc?
Ilya Grigorik, Google wrote a great book, High Performance Browser Networking: https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/mylekha-ebook/IT+%26+Programming/Network/High-Performance-Browser-Networking-Ilya-Grigorik.pdf
Secure it! XSS, CSRF, CORS, JWT, etc http://jwt.io
Easy! Learn how to visualize it
^({0,1}((0|+61)(2|4|3|7|8)){0,1}){0,1}(\ |-){0,1}[0-9]{2}(\ |-){0,1}[0-9]{2}(\ |-){0,1}[0-9]{1}(\ |-){0,1}[0-9]{3}$
https://goo.gl/ http://regexr.com/ https://regex101.com/
- Algorithm Visualizer, http://jasonpark.me/AlgorithmVisualizer/#path=graph_search/dfs/tree
- Algorithms and Data Structures for Golang, https://github.com/0xAX/go-algorithms
- Algorithms and Data Structures in Python , https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsJ_X8XMWFjOfvMXk7HsZYr8vUwYVxTQM
Look at this! It was built by large community over the past 20 years and has a lot of great, well-optimized libraries. There is no need to reinvent everything in Golang.
- An introduction to distributed systems, https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class
- Most Golang related interview shadows "50 Shades of Go" article. Can you explain in plain English how Concurrency and Parallelism work in Go?` http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in-go-golang/
- Do you know how to write High Performance Go? http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/davecheney/presentations/writing-high-performance-go.slide#1
- How to Pass a Programming Interview (triplebyte.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11246917
- Most HR expects you to score 200+ from 300 points. Practice, https://codility.com/programmers/lessons/
- Tips for tasks on Codility, http://dev.tasubo.com/2012/09/tips-for-tasks-on-codility.html
DON'T SKIP TRAINING! You are compiting again other candidates. Good news - most candidates are too lazy, overconfident and 90% of them won't bother to spend 4-6 hours to practice.
WHAT NEXT?
- If you are not native speaker, invest in American Accent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIoD11Q8WQk&list=PLB132BCC7B2FD1FB9
Golang's main power is in its community. Here's the list of great people you might want to follow
- Brad Fitzpatrick https://twitter.com/bradfitz
- Dave Cheney https://twitter.com/davecheney
- Russ Cox https://twitter.com/_rsc
- Peter Bourgon https://twitter.com/peterbourgon
- Mitchell Hashimoto https://twitter.com/mitchellh
- Damian Gryski https://twitter.com/dgryski
- Andrew Gerrand https://twitter.com/enneff
- Dmitry Vyukov https://twitter.com/dvyukov
- Brian Ketelsen https://twitter.com/bketelsen
- JBD https://twitter.com/rakyll
- Francesc Campoy https://twitter.com/francesc
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