Go Programming Blueprints

by Mat Ryer

Build real-world, production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques 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.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Go

394 pages, Paperback

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IMHO the book can be today (2024) outdated eg.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