Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang: Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code

by Achilleas Anagnostopoulos

Explore software engineering methodologies, techniques, and best practices in Go programming to build easy-to-maintain software that can effortlessly scale on demand Over the last few years, Go has become one of the favorite languages for building scalable and distributed systems. Its opinionated design and built-in concurrency features make it easy for engineers to author code that efficiently utilizes all available CPU cores. This Golang book distills industry best practices for writing lean Go code that is easy to test and maintain, and helps you to explore its practical implementation by creating a multi-tier application called Links 'R' Us from scratch. You'll be guided through all the steps involved in designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and scaling an application. Starting with a monolithic architecture, you'll iteratively transform the project into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that supports the efficient out-of-core processing of large link graphs. You'll learn about various cutting-edge and advanced software engineering techniques such as building extensible data processing pipelines, designing APIs using gRPC, and running distributed graph processing algorithms at scale. Finally, you'll learn how to compile and package your Go services using Docker and automate their deployment to a Kubernetes cluster. By the end of this book, you'll know how to think like a professional software developer or engineer and write lean and efficient Go code. This Golang programming book is for developers and software engineers looking to use Go to design and build scalable distributed systems effectively. Knowledge of Go programming and basic networking principles is required.

Genres: Go, Technical

640 pages, Paperback

Published January 24, 2020

About the author

Achilleas Anagnostopoulos holds a Master's Degree in Information and Telecommunication Technologies from Athens Information Technology as well as a Master's Degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University.

His primary research interests include operating systems, distributed systems and databases.

As a polyglot software engineer, he has worked in a diverse spectrum of companies ranging from small/medium startups to members of the FTSE 250.

Reviews

[Mr. Musale]

I enjoyed reading this book. It gives valuable lessons on the Software development life cycle and the role of the software engineer in documenting and crafting the software, to breaking down big challenges into smaller, manageable chunks that one can work on.

There are myriad nuggets on how to go about various stages of working on a project and the language of choice – golang – is well utilized and tested.

The code is easy to access and get running locally on your machine.

I would definitely re-read this book and I recommend it to any Software Engineer interested in Software architecting.

[Adolfo Builes]

The book does a job good job covering how different software development practices are done in golang.

I think it's great if you have experience building software and want to pick up golang, but If you are just getting starting it might be a bit frustrating since the cognitive overload is pretty high.

It also has a bunch of content that looks like page fillers, for example there are some sections about things like waterfall, SCRUM, and Agile :(.

[Jayson Vibandor]

This book is superb for advanced Golang developer