Enjoy all the great features of Go (e.g. goroutines, channels, http packages) in this awesome (small) workshop.
To launch your spaceship execute the following command inside a new terminal window.
$ go run spaceship/spaceship.go
Double-check if the spaceship is correctly launched by browsing to:
This is not your typical copy-paste workshop/tutorial. Instead use the official Go language documentation, Go-by-example or Google to finish this mission.
Last night, for some unknown reason, one of NASA's spaceships was launched. All communication channels with the spaceship are dead, besides 1 HTTP uplink. It's your task to investigate what happened using Go.
Enjoy and don't forget: To infinity…and beyond!
Open groundcontrol.go, search for reachout() and start coding to connect to the spaceship.
Check out: GO HTTP client, Defer, multiple return parameters.
To check your groundcontrol code, execute this:
$ go run groundcontrol.go
Open Ground control
First checkout branch step2
Use a couple of workers to throw more capacity to the problem. Also tune the total of workers to prevent TCP connection errors. Check out: go routines, wait groups, method pointer receivers.
If you implement this correctly and you wait 10 minutes, you see what happened inside the spaceship.
First checkout branch extra
You probably also noted that some connections are really slow and holding us down. Try to implement timeouts with Go channels to speed up our process.
Check out: select channel, timeout channel.
Launch 4 more spaceships and gathering all the information inside groundcontrol.
Check out: maps, channels, goroutines
Hopefully you enjoyed this short mission and experienced some great benefits of Go. That's all folks.