Benchmarking Your Go Code
Go's built-in microbenchmarks — measure first, optimise second.
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Disable AI suggestions while you learn
This course teaches you to hand-write every line of code. Open VS Code (or your editor of choice) and turn off Copilot, Cursor Tab, Tabnine, Codeium, and any inline AI autocomplete before you start a lesson.
AI mid-completion robs you of the small mistakes that make concepts stick. You'll be a faster, more independent developer at the end of the course if you type every character yourself. Re-enable AI for your real work after — never during a lesson.
Goal of this course: learn, not ship fastest.
What you'll build
A benchmark suite for your Go service hot paths, with a baseline, a profiling workflow, and one measured optimisation.
What you'll learn
Course outline
Prerequisites
- ›Completed Building a Go API
- ›Comfortable writing Go tests
Who this is for
- ›Devs guessing at performance
- ›Anyone tempted to micro-optimise without data
- ›Backend engineers shipping latency-sensitive features
Ready to start?
Lesson 1 takes ~6 minutes. By the end of this hour you'll be writing real code.