Learn the HTTP Protocol in Go
Build HTTP yourself so requests, responses, headers, and status codes stop feeling like magic.
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ThePrimeagen
ThePrimeagen spent 10 years at Netflix writing performance critical software. He has become deeply passionate about building developer tools and teaching others how to use them. He only codes in NeoVim, uses a split keyboard, and rebases his Git branches. And yes, he has a beautiful wife and children.
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What you'll learn in this Go course
The web is built on HTTP, and there's no better way to understand how something works than to implement it yourself. In this course, we'll learn the nitty-gritty details of the HTTP/1.1 protocol, and as we do so we'll actually build our own HTTP server from scratch in Go. By the end, you'll have a deep understanding of how web transport works.
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The hardest Go course I've ever done, but I learnt a TON about HTTP
Francois Schoeman
South Africa
Incredible course but close to end really got harder and ı lost my mind and start learning nvim. Thanks!
çetin erdem
Dubai
I mean, really good course. If you want to understand low level HTTP and look under the hood, then this is the course for you.
duckshed
California
pretty fun. Recommend 10/10.
Lourenço
Portugal
I've learnt quite a lot, and that's all I ask for
Emma Papi
Italy
very hands on and difficult course
Alec Dvorak
Granite City, IL
It was an amazing first time end-to-end project. It was great to see my http-server performs some responses after I building it myself!!
Renato Vasquez
Ecuador
the learning experience was really great, i understand the http protocal better than ever.
Pratham Khanal
Nepal
Particularly harder than other Go classes in Boot.dev. I felt ambivalent between feeling improved and feeling miserable. Prolly it's my skill issue. I think I can write 40 percent on my own without any guidance. (This is the part I felt worse) But, at the same time I now can implement struct, interfaces, using byte buffer to catch streaming data until it is done, using bytes.Index to find the registered nurse, and slide the window a bit to read more parts. (This is the part I felt improved).
Harim Yoo
South Korea
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