Mastering Go is the essential guide to putting Go to work on real production systems. This freshly updated third edition includes topics like creating RESTful servers and clients, understanding Go generics, and developing gRPC servers and clients.
Mastering Go was written for programmers who want to explore the capabilities of Go in practice. As you work your way through the chapters, you’ll gain confidence and a deep understanding of advanced Go concepts, including concurrency and the operation of the Go Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You’ll also improve your understanding of Go internals to optimize Go code and use data types and data structures in new and unexpected ways.
This essential Go programming book will also take you through the nuances and idioms of Go with exercises and resources to fully embed your newly acquired knowledge.
With the help of Mastering Go, you’ll become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.
publication date
2021-08-31
what you will learn
Use Go in production
Write reliable, high-performance concurrent code
Manipulate data structures including slices, arrays, maps, and pointers
Develop reusable packages with reflection and interfaces
Become familiar with generics for effective Go programming
Create concurrent RESTful servers, and build gRPC clients and servers
Define Go structures for working with JSON data
key features
This third edition of the bestselling guide to advanced Go programming has been overhauled and expanded to cover RESTful servers, the WebSocket protocol, and Go generics * Use real-world exercises to build high-performance network servers and powerful command line utilities * Packed with practical examples and utilities to apply to your own development work and administrative tasks * Get clear explanations about Go nuances and features to simplify Go development
approach
The book covers the nuances of Go, with comprehensive coverage on types and structures, packages, concurrency, network programming, compiler design, optimization, and more. Each chapter ends with exercises and resources to fully embed your new knowledge.
audience
You’ll need to know the basics of Go before you get started with this book, but beyond that, anyone can sink their teeth into it. It’s written primarily for Go programmers who have a bit of experience with the language and want to become expert practitioners.
short description
This book not only goes into great depth on Go features usually taken for granted, but also improves your understanding of Go internals, allowing you to optimize Go code, use all Go data types and data structures in new and unexpected ways, and understand how to develop Go projects, do OS-level coding and build network applications in Go.
subtitle
Harness the power of Go to build professional utilities and concurrent servers and services
keywords
Concurrent programming; network programming; Golang; Go Programming Language; concurrent programming in java; Golang book; concurrency in java
Product ISBN
9781801079310
