Comprehensive Golang Project Roadmap
2-3 Projects per Industrial Domain
1. Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Auto-scale pods based on Kubernetes API,
Kubernetes Operator
custom metrics Prometheus, YAML/Helm
Terraform-like Cloud CLI tool to manage AWS AWS SDK, Terraform HCL
Provisioner EC2/S3 resources syntax, Cobra CLI
CI/CD Pipeline Visualize pipeline GitHub Actions API,
Analyzer efficiency with metrics Prometheus, Grafana
2. Distributed Systems & Microservices
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
gRPC Product Service with Redis caching Protocol Buffers, gRPC-
Catalog & tracing gateway, OpenTelemetry
Raft-based Distributed KV store with Hashicorp Raft, TCP
Configuration Store leader election networking, Consensus
Event-Driven Order Kafka-based order Kafka Go SDK, CQRS patterns,
Processor fulfillment system Avro schemas
3. Backend Services & APIs
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Auth, rate limiting, and
JWT-Auth API Gateway Gin/Echo, OAuth2, Redis
request routing
Real-Time WebSocket server for document Gorilla WebSockets, CRDT
Collaboration Service editing algorithms
GraphQL Federation Combine multiple gRPC gqlgen, Apollo
Gateway services into GraphQL Federation, Protobuf
4. Networking & Security
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Zero-Trust mTLS proxy with SPIFFE identity crypto/tls, SPIFFE/SPIRE,
VPN Proxy verification Network policies
API Security Detect OWASP Top 10 OWASP Cheat Sheets, HTTP
Scanner vulnerabilities in APIs middleware
eBPF Network Track container traffic using Cilium/eBPF, Kubernetes,
Monitor eBPF probes Grafana
5. Fintech & Trading
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Cryptocurrency Process BTC/ETH with Blockchain RPC (Geth), UTXO
Payment Gateway double-spend prevention handling
Order Matching Low-latency exchange for Lock-free queues, FIX
Engine limit/market orders protocol, Binary encoding
Risk Analysis Real-time trading risk TimescaleDB, gRPC-streaming,
Engine calculator Quant math
6. Observability & Monitoring
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Prometheus Business Track custom KPIs like
Prometheus client, Grafana, SQL
Metrics Exporter cart abandonment
Identify latency Jaeger API, Flamegraph
Distributed Trace
hotspots in Jaeger generation, Python (for
Analyzer
traces analysis)
Log Anomaly Find patterns in ELK stack, Machine Learning
Detector Elasticsearch logs basics (Python)
7. Developer Tooling
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
GitOps CLI for Sync Git repos with K8s Kubernetes client-go, Git
Kubernetes clusters libraries
Detect race conditions Go AST parsing, Code
Concurrency Linter
in Go code diagnostics
Infrastructure Diagram Visualize Terraform Terraform HCL parsing,
Generator resources Graphviz, D3.js
8. Edge/IoT Computing
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Sensor Data MQTT → Kafka → TimescaleDB MQTT, Kafka, TimescaleDB,
Pipeline pipeline Grafana
Edge ML Inference Image classifier for TensorFlow Lite, ONNX runtime,
Server Raspberry Pi C bindings
Fleet Management Monitor IoT devices with
gRPC, SQLite, WebSocket APIs
System OTA updates
9. Media & Streaming
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Live Video Adaptive bitrate streaming FFmpeg C bindings, HLS/DASH
Transcoding Proxy protocols
Ad Impression Count 100K+ events/sec with Redis, Kafka, Statistical
Tracker HyperLogLog approximation
Content protection service Widevine/PlayReady SDKs,
DRM License Server
for media Cryptography
10. Emerging Fields
Project Description Required Skills/Tools
Browser-based editor via TinyGo, WebAssembly DOM API,
WASM Image Editor
WebAssembly JavaScript interop
Blockchain Oracle Bridge smart contracts ↔ Ethereum, Web3.py, Solidity
Service real-world APIs basics
Quantum Algorithm Run quantum circuits on Linear algebra, QASM, Python
Simulator classical hardware (for comparison)
Cross-Cutting Skill Requirements
Domain Essential Complementary Technologies
Cloud/DevOps Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/Azure APIs, Helm
Distributed Systems gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Kafka, Raft/Paxos
Networking/Security TLS/mTLS, OAuth2/OIDC, eBPF, SPIFFE
Observability PromQL, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Grafana
Data Processing PostgreSQL, Redis, TimescaleDB, Parquet
Frontend Integration React/Vue, WebSocket APIs, JavaScript/TypeScript
Performance Tuning pprof, flamegraphs, benchmark testing, assembly
Containerization Docker, Buildpacks, Multi-stage builds
Emerging Tech WebAssembly, Blockchain basics, Quantum concepts
Learning Roadmap & Pro Tips
```mermaid graph TD A[Beginner] -->|Start with| B[Backend Services] B -->
C[Distributed Systems] C --> D[Cloud/DevOps] D --> E[Specialized Domains]
