Description
Summary
Go in Practice guides you through 70 real-world techniques in key areas like package management, microservice communication, and more. Following a cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook builds on the foundational concepts of the Go language and introduces specific strategies you’ll be able to use in your day-to-day applications.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Go may be the perfect systems language. Built with simplicity, concurrency, and modern applications in mind, Go provides the core tool set for swiftly building web, cloud, and systems applications. If you know a language like Java or C#, it’s easy to get started with Go; the trick is finding the practical dirt-under-the-fingernails techniques that you wish to have to build production-ready code.
About the Book
Go in Practice guides you through dozens of real-world techniques in key areas. Following a cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook builds on the foundational concepts of the Go language and introduces specific strategies you’ll be able to use in your day-to-day applications. You’ll be able to learn techniques for building web services and products, the use of Go in the cloud, testing and debugging, routing, network applications, and a lot more. After finishing this book, you are going to manage to build sophisticated cloud-native Go applications.
What’s Inside
- Dozens of specific, practical Golang techniques
- Using Go for devops and cloudops
- Writing RESTful web services and products and microservices
- Practical web dev techniques
About the Reader
Written for experienced developers who have already started exploring Go and wish to use it effectively in a production setting.
About the Authors
Matt Farina is a software architect at Deis. Matt Butcher is a Principal Engineer in the Advanced Technology Group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They are both authors, speakers, and regular open source contributors.
Table of Contents
- Getting into Go
- A solid foundation
- Concurrency in Go
- Handling errors and panic
- Debugging and testing
- HTML and email template patterns
- Serving and receiving assets and forms
- Working with web services
- Using the cloud
- Communication between cloud services
- Reflection and code generation