GO on AWS - Coding, Serverless and Infrastructure as Code

How to download and install GO in different environments.

GO is

- Fast

- Mature

- Quality through rigidity , e.g. static typing(*)

- Less maintenance costs

In this first exercise you will learn about the three levels of exercise:
1) Challenge: Just use the description and try it own your own
2) Free: Use step by step example without code
3) Guided: Watch the video

Starting with simple variables.

Your first program. We start with just a few variable declarations.

Variable scopes are vital to understanding that sometimes different variables may have the same name!

Variable scopes are vital to understanding that sometimes different variables may have the same name! To fully understand scopes, we do an exercise.

Do you think pointers are complicated? They are no. Let me give you a simple explanation.

This first datatype is available in almost any programming language. The only difference is the fixed length. Let's explore this.

Slices are the better arrays. Have a look at the most crucial type in GO.

Maps, dictionary - the name is different across the programming languages. Maps are your small database, so check it out.

Structured are composed of datatypes.

Structures start easy and become more complex to be the solution to complex problems.

You will use structures often used in AWS. So it is worth some training.

This lecture is about how GO implements the features of dynamic languages. Prepare for enhanced duck-typing.

Modules are the base of the GO dependency system since GO 1.13.

Modules are the base of the GO dependency system since GO 1.13. You will use them in almost every program. So it is worth an exercise.

Functions are just functions. This lecture is about how to define and call them. Again GO has its ways of solving problems.

Train functions executing through different parts of the program.

GO is object-oriented. It just concentrates on vital features.

This lecture shows you how to deal with the AWS event JSON files.

A late introduction to interfaces.

The most famous control statement.

Combine multiple ifs with switch.

The only loop you need.

Access all AWS services with the GO SDK.

This lecture combines GO knowledge and basic SDK knowledge.

Access the EC2 service - a starter for AWS API usage.

How to write files, aka objects to S3.

This lecture is a short introduction to the CloudFormation service API.  Code a stack counter!

This exercise goes one step further: List all resources inside a stack.

This lecture shows a safe way to distribute files.  You implemented it as a command line app.

You implemented it as a command line app.