Open source Go, the concurrent garbage-collected programming language that scales big and fast, is the emerging language of the Cloud. Russ Cox, technical co-leader of the Go Project at Google, described Go at a Boston area Google Developers Group meeting this way, “Go is a fast, fun, and productive language for writing programs.”

In this third in a series video about how to program with Go, Mark Bates, Go expert extraordinaire, ladles a big helping of the special Go sauce that makes this language so tasty. There is a lot to consume in this serving—22 segments—so settle in for a big meal.

• Build and test a basic web app in Go
• Handle and test multi-part file uploads
• Bundle, access and serve static assets like templates and JavaScript
• Build a router with TDD, then test Pat and Mux, the popular 3rd party routers
• Create a middleware stack for HTTP, use it to understand how Go manages variable context
• Render JSON, XML and more with Package
• Work with EventSource, Goth, Gopher JS, the Revel web framework, HttpRouter, Echo, and go.rice
• Get more on the ins and outs of JSON encoding/decoding
• Produce a scalable echo server using Gorilla Web Toolkit’s WebSocket
• Configure Go to serve content over HTTP and HTTPS; Build a proxy server to a back-end Rails app