Mastering Go: Leverage Go's expertise for advanced utilities, empowering you to develop professional software, Fourth Edition
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Key benefits
- Fully updated with coverage of web services, TCP/IP, REST APIs, Go Generics, and Fuzzy Testing
- Apply your new knowledge to real-world exercises, building high-performance servers and robust command-line utilities, to deepen your learning
- Gain clarity on what makes Go different, understand its nuances and features for smoother Go development
Book description
Mastering Go, now in its fourth edition, remains the go-to resource for real-world Go development. This comprehensive guide delves into advanced Go concepts, including RESTful servers, and Go memory management. This edition brings new chapters on Go Generics and fuzzy Testing, and an enriched exploration of efficiency and performance. As you work your way through the chapters, you will gain confidence and a deep understanding of advanced Go topics, including concurrency and the operation of the Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You will be engaged in real-world exercises, build network servers, and develop robust command-line utilities. With in-depth chapters on RESTful services, the WebSocket protocol, and Go internals, you are going to master Go's nuances, optimization, and observability. You will also elevate your skills in efficiency, performance, and advanced testing. With the help of Mastering Go, you will become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.Who is this book for?
Mastering Go is written primarily for Go programmers who have some experience with the language and want to become expert practitioners. You will need to know the basics of computer programming before you get started with this book, but beyond that, anyone can sink their teeth into it.What you will learn
Learn Go data types, error handling, constants, pointers, and array and slice manipulations through practical exercises Create generic functions, define data types, explore constraints, and grasp interfaces and reflections Grasp advanced concepts like packages, modules, functions, and database interaction Create concurrent RESTful servers, and build TCP/IP clients and servers Learn testing, profiling, and efficient coding for high-performance applications Develop an SQLite package, explore Docker integration, and embrace workspacesWhat do you get with eBook? 
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Mar 29, 2024
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736 pages
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4th Edition
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Table of Contents
19 Chapters
Go Concurrency
Processes, threads, and goroutines
The Go scheduler
Goroutines
Channels
Race conditions are bad
The select keyword
Timing out a goroutine
Go channels revisited
Handling UNIX signals
Shared memory and shared variables
Closured variables and the go statement
The context package
The semaphore package
Making the statistics application concurrent
Summary
Exercises
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