Mindset for a Software Engineer

You're not learning Go just to add a language to your CV. You're learning it so you can:

• Build network and security services that hold up in production, not just in demos
• Review designs and PRs and know whether a proposed WAF or bot detection approach is sound
• Use managed products well by knowing what their algorithms actually do
• Debug the hard problems (stuck connections, TLS failures, false positives) instead of escalating them
• Hold yourself to production standards (test coverage, graceful shutdown, observability) from experience, not checklists

The exercises are deliberately narrow (1 hour each) and deep. Breadth comes from the mini projects.