Go Programming Blueprints

by Mat Ryer

Build real-world, production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques About This Book - Get up to date with Go and write code capable of delivering massive world-class scale performance and availability - Learn to apply the nuances of the Go language, and get to know the open source community that surrounds it to implement a wide range of start-up quality projects - Write interesting and clever but simple code, and learn skills and techniques that are directly transferrable to your own projects Who This Book Is For If you are familiar with Go and are want to put your knowledge to work, then this is the book for you. Go programming knowledge is a must. What You Will Learn - Build quirky and fun projects from scratch while exploring patterns, practices, and techniques, as well as a range of different technologies - Create websites and data services capable of massive scale using Go's net/http package, exploring RESTful patterns as well as low-latency WebSocket APIs - Interact with a variety of remote web services to consume capabilities ranging from authentication and authorization to a fully functioning thesaurus - Develop high-quality command-line tools that utilize the powerful shell capabilities and perform well using Go's in-built concurrency mechanisms - Build microservices for larger organizations using the Go Kit library - Implement a modern document database as well as high-throughput messaging queue technology to put together an architecture that is truly ready to scale - Write concurrent programs and gracefully manage the execution of them and communication by smartly using channels - Get a feel for app deployment using Docker and Google App Engine In Detail Go is the language of the Internet age, and the latest version of Go comes with major architectural changes. Implementation of the language, runtime, and libraries has changed significantly. The compiler and runtime are now written entirely in Go. The garbage collector is now concurrent and provides dramatically lower pause times by running in parallel with other Go routines when possible. This book will show you how to leverage all the latest features and much more. This book shows you how to build powerful systems and drops you into real-world situations. You will learn to develop high-quality command-line tools that utilize the powerful shell capabilities and perform well using Go's in-built concurrency mechanisms. Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of our projects, and the lessons learned throughout this book will arm you with everything you need to build world-class solutions. You will get a feel for app deployment using Docker and Google App Engine. Each project could form the basis of a start-up, which means they are directly applicable to modern software markets. Style and approach This book provides fun projects that involve building applications from scratch. These projects will teach you to build chat applications, a distributed system, and a recommendation system.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Go

432 pages, ebook

Published October 27, 2016

Reviews

[Leandro López · Rating 2 out of 5]

I understand writing a book isn't an easy task, so this is not a critique to the author, but the editors and those who decided to publish it: it lacks lots of details on the important things, and assumes other things as granted or known by the reader. It also uses **lots** of dependencies, which isn't very Go-like. I'm by no means an expert in Go development, but I'm experienced enough to know that I wouldn't recommend this book to any other programmer.

[Marcin · Rating 3 out of 5]

IMHO the book can be today (2024) outdated eg. now we can use go modules instead of GOPATH.

Everyone needs to answer the question of what they expect from this book. The first 3 chapters WebSockets & OAuth look interesting. But in this project, we use an external library (which is not bad decision, but we only call some external functions)
Other chapters are very similar. If you are looking for inspiration add +1 to grade.

If you know something about Go or/and you have experience with another programming language, you will probably not learn many things.

[Leland William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book for practicing projects in Go.

[Iskander Ignatev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for introduction golang's ways of solving problems and language design.
Some examples don't work.

[Thang · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit out of date