{"slug": "after-years-of-working-with-go-i-wrote-the-interview-guide-i-wish-i-d-had", "title": "After years of working with Go, I wrote the interview guide I wish I'd had", "summary": "A new interview guide for senior Go engineers focusing on AI platform engineering has been published on Leanpub. The book covers LLM gateways, RAG, vector search, Kubernetes, and production failure modes, targeting mid-level developers preparing for senior roles. It includes executable Go examples and a capstone RAG service project.", "body_md": "## The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee\n\nWithin **60 days of purchase** you can get a **100% refund** on any Leanpub purchase, in **two clicks**.[See full terms...](/refunds)\n\n[Kick off your book project](/events/book_kickstart_workshop), [get started with GhostAI](/events/ghostai_workshop), [get better at marketing](/events/book_marketing_workshop), or spend the day [doing all three](/events/full_day)! Free live workshops on Zoom. Saturday, June 27, 2026.\n\nProduction-Grade Go, LLM Platforms, RAG, Vector Search, and Cloud Native Systems\n\nPrepare for senior Go interviews, or for the jump from mid-level to senior, with a focus on AI platform engineering: LLM gateways, RAG, vector search, Kubernetes, observability, concurrency ownership, and production failure modes.\n\nIncludes interview questions, senior-level answer rubrics, executable Go examples, and a production-oriented RAG service capstone you can run, test, break, and explain.\n\nMinimum price\n\n$12.99\n\n$19.99\n\nAbout the Book\n\n** The Senior Go Engineer Interview Guide: AI Platform Engineering** is a practical preparation book for experienced Go developers who want to perform well in senior-level backend, platform, cloud-native, and AI infrastructure interviews.\n\nThis volume focuses on the AI platform side of senior Go engineering: LLM gateways, streaming inference, token and cost budgets, tenant isolation, RAG ingestion, vector retrieval, citations, observability, Kubernetes deployment, and production failure behavior.\n\nIt is especially useful for mid-level Go developers preparing to grow into senior roles, and for senior engineers who want to sharpen how they explain modern AI-backed systems under interview pressure.\n\nThe book is not a syntax checklist and it is not a collection of memorized answers. It focuses on the reasoning interviewers expect from senior engineers: clear invariants, trade-offs, failure modes, operational behavior, concurrency ownership, observability, security boundaries, and communication under uncertainty. It is designed to help you explain how production systems behave when traffic spikes, dependencies fail, goroutines leak, queues back up, Kubernetes rolls out a new version, or an LLM request streams tokens to a client.\n\nInside, you will find interview-style questions and concise senior-level answers covering Go language and API design, goroutines, channels, context propagation, memory management, race conditions, error handling, testing, distributed consistency, retries, idempotency, queues, caching, resiliency, Kubernetes workloads, autoscaling, observability, databases, performance engineering, system design, security, multitenancy, LLM platform engineering, RAG, vector search, and senior engineering practices.\n\nThe guide also includes executable Go examples and a capstone project: a production-oriented RAG service with tenant-scoped ingestion, deterministic embeddings, vector retrieval, streamed answers, citations, quotas, probes, metrics, structured logging, graceful shutdown, Docker, and Kubernetes manifests. The code is deliberately local and deterministic so you can run it, test it, break it, and explain every boundary without relying on external credentials.\n\nThis book is useful if you are preparing for roles such as Senior Go Engineer, Staff Backend Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Native Engineer, Kubernetes Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, AI Platform Engineer, LLM Infrastructure Engineer, RAG Engineer, or backend-focused technical lead. 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