# Ultimate Go Service

DevFeed: [Ultimate Go Service](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ultimate-go-service-22135.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2018/06/ultimate-go-service.html>)

Published: 2018-06-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [William Kennedy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/william-kennedy.md>)

Topics: [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Application Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-development.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>)

Tags: [application-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application-development.md>), [ardan-labs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ardan-labs.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [go-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go-programming.md>), [golang](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/golang.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains that the Ultimate Go class teaches Go language mechanics, semantics, history, and correctness-focused development, but does not by itself prepare developers to write production services or other applications. It outlines five skill layers: language mechanics, application development, observability, deployment, and source control or continuous integration.

## Source excerpt

Introduction I teach a class called Ultimate Go. The class is three days long and teaches you the history, mechanics and semantics of the Go programming language. The idea is to teach you how to read code to the level that you can understand the behavior and impact your program is having on the machine. This helps you make better and more consistent engineering decisions. At the same time, the class is very focused on teaching you how to optimize for correctness so the code you are writing is readable as a first priority. After three days in the class, I do believe you are a better developer. Not just a better Go developer, but a better developer in general. This is regardless of how much experience you had in Go or programming before you walked in the room.