Go Recipes for Developers
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 350 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (December 30, 2024)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1835464394
- ISBN-13: 978-1835464397
eBook Description:
Go Recipes for Developers: Top techniques and practical solutions for real-life Go programming problems. Master essential Go programming techniques step by step with expert-led recipes and ready-to-use solutions for common challenges.
With its simple syntax and sensible conventions, Go has emerged as the language of choice for developers in network programming, web services, data processing, and other settings. This Go Recipes for Developers practical guide helps engineers leverage Go through up-to-date recipes that solve common problems in day-to-day programming. Drawing from three decades of distributed systems engineering and technical leadership at companies like Red Hat, Burak Serdar brings battle-tested expertise in building robust, scalable applications.
He starts by covering basics of code structure, describing different approaches to organizing packages for different types of projects. You’ll discover practical solutions to engineering challenges in network programming, dealing with processes, databases, data processing pipelines, and testing. Each chapter provides working solutions and production-ready code snippets that you can seamlessly incorporate into your programs while working in sequential and concurrent settings. The solutions leverage the more recent additions to the Go language, such as generics and structured logging. Most of the examples are developed using the Go standard library without any third-party packages.
- Understand how to structure projects
- Find out how to process text with Go tools
- Discover how to work with arrays, slices, and maps
- Implement robust error handling patterns
- Explore concurrent data processing for Go programs
- Get up to speed with how to control processes
- Integrate Go applications with databases
- Understand how to test, benchmark, and profile Go programs
By the end of this Go Recipes for Developers book, you’ll have worked through a collection of proven recipes that will equip you accelerate your Go development journey.