The introduction of my way to learn Go together with Go community

I will share how I had chosen to learn Go together with my Go community, keeping in mind the advantages and disadvantages in each case, based on my learning curve from when I first started learning Go. I will explain the advantages and disadvantages in each case through practical experience.

https://gocon.jp/2022spring/sessions/a14-s/

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1. Agenda The introduction of my way to learn Go together with Go community Go Conference 2022 Spring @nsega
2. About me • Naoki Sega (@nsega) • Backend Engineer in Mercari US since Dec 2021. ◦ Joined Mercari JP in Nov 2018. • mercari.go Organizer. • Go: 3+ years experience • My current interests: Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Microservices, CNCF Products.
3. Agenda Agenda
4. Agenda • My background • My learning approach with Go communities • The introduction of my tips • Conclusion
5. Agenda My background
6. My background • PHP, Java • Experience developing and operating in large-scale service • Experience with GCP, AWS, and On-premises • More than 10+ years experience in Backend/Infra Engineer
7. Agenda My learning approach with Go communities
8. OUTPUT INPUT PROCESS My Learning approach - Overview Phase 1 Getting Started Phase 2 More practical Phase 3 Practice, practice, and practice Phase 4: Contribute to Community, OSS products Code Code, Docs Code, Docs Code, Docs
9. Learning curve ( Phase 1 )
10. Input phase. Main activities are mainly input. • Input ◦ A Tour of Go ◦ The Go Programming Language Specification ◦ Packages ( Standard Library) ◦ The Go Playground • Output ◦ Code Phase 1 : Getting Started
11. • Community, Conference ◦ Go Conference ( Attendee ) ◦ golang.tokyo ( Attendee ) ◦ mercari.go ( Attendee ) ◦ Go Friday ( Attendee ) * Internal • Pros/Cons ◦ [+] The official documents and the Go Playground are informative. ◦ [+] Many active community support us. ◦ [-] Many things we have to remembers. Phase 1 : Getting Started
12. Learning curve ( Phase 2 )
13. A phase is in more practical. Get experience of practical things. • Input ◦ Effective Go ◦ Code Review Comments ◦ Go に入ってはGoに従え ◦ Practical Go: Real world advice for writing maintainable Go programs ◦ Uber Go Style Guide • Output ◦ Code (Production Code ), Docs (Design Doc, Blog entry) Phase 2 : More practical
14. Phase 2 : More practical • Community, Conference ◦ Go Conference ( Attendee ) ◦ GopherCon ( Attendee ) ◦ mercari.go ( Attendee, Speaker ) ◦ Go Friday ( Attendee, Speaker ) * Internal • Pros/Cons ◦ [+] Official documents are always informative. Firstly, look for the official docs. ◦ [+] Hear practical experience from speakers, attendees in Community. ◦ [-] Increase practical issues, such as how to maintain it efficiently.
15. Learning curve ( Phase 3 )
16. An exponential phase. Start linking to many pieces of your mind as a practice. • Input ◦ Looking for Issues/PRs in OSS products written in Go. ( e.g. kubernetes/kubernetes, cloud.google.com/go, CNCF products ) ◦ Code reading Go. ◦ High Performance Go Workshop • Output ◦ Code (Production Code, Library, etc), Docs (Design Doc, article, etc) Phase 3: Practice, practice, practice
17. Phase 3: Practice, practice, practice • Community, Conference ◦ Go Conference ( Attendee ) ◦ GopherCon ( Attendee ) ◦ mercari.go ( Speaker, Organizer ) ◦ Go Friday ( Attendee, Speaker ) * Internal • Pros/Cons ◦ [+] Reading issues/PRs of OSS products are reasonable. ◦ [+] Get many feedback from Community as a speaker. ◦ [-] Domain specific and complexed issues.
18. Learning curve ( Phase 4 )
19. An asymptotic phase. Findings new things you’ve never known. • Input ◦ GitHub Issues / PRs in Go or OSS products written in GO ◦ Golang Weekly - a weekly newsletter ◦ The Go Blog ◦ research!rsc • Output ◦ Code (Production Code, PRs to OSS, etc), Docs (Design Doc, Issues, etc) Phase 4: Contribute to community, OSS products
20. • Community, Conference ◦ Go Conference ( Attendee, Speaker ) ◦ GopherCon ( Attendee ) ◦ mercari.go ( Organizer ) ◦ Go Friday ( Attendee, Speaker ) * Internal • Pros/Cons ◦ [+] Reading issues/PRs of OSS products are reasonable. ◦ [+] Get many feedback from Community as a Speaker/Organizer. ◦ [-] Start realizing own strengths and weaknesses. Phase 4: Contribute to community, OSS products
21. From the perspective of Community Role Expectation ( Will ) Attendees • Hear something from Speakers. • Solve something they have. • Ask Speakers questions. Speakers • Share something with Attendees. • Put into words in your own understanding. • Receive feedback from Attendees, Organizers. Organizers • Return technology and adoption cases to the community. • Provide an environment where engineers(Attendees, Speakers) can continuously input, output, and play an active role.
22. From the perspective of Community Output target • Recommended Practices • Adoption cases • A product update (e.g., recent changes, feature enhancements, or bug fixes) • Encourage others to challenge • Meet a person who stimulates you
23. Learning curve ( accelerated )
24. Agenda The Introduction of my tips
25. Linter used to flag programming errors, bugs, stylistic errors and suspicious constructs. Using Linter checks make the code review and test processes more efficient by yourself. • golangci-lint ◦ A Go linters aggregator. ◦ https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint • reviewdog ◦ A code review dog who keeps your codebase healthy. ◦ https://github.com/reviewdog/reviewdog Tips 1：Linter ( a static code analysis )
26. Code reading with code search will support you encouraging code reuse, finding code examples, increasing efficiency, addressing security risks, and more. • Sourcegraph ◦ Find things across all of codebases faster ◦ https://sourcegraph.com/search e.g. Explore Kubernetes repositories on GitHub • Google Open Source/Code Search ◦ Find things across Go codebase ◦ https://cs.opensource.google/go Tips 2: Code reading with code search
27. Agenda Conclusion
28. • Implement INPUT → PROCESS → OUTPUT cycle repeatedly. • Learning is an endless process. Keep learning with Go community and enjoy the process. • Contribute to Go community and OSS proactively. Conclusion
29. Agenda We’re hiring! https://careers.mercari.com/search-jobs/?cat=mercari-inc-us-company
30. Agenda Fin