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Go Cookbook

By : Aaron Torres
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Go Cookbook

By: Aaron Torres

Overview of this book

Go (a.k.a. Golang) is a statically-typed programming language first developed at Google. It is derived from C with additional features such as garbage collection, type safety, dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types, and a large standard library. This book takes off where basic tutorials on the language leave off. You can immediately put into practice some of the more advanced concepts and libraries offered by the language while avoiding some of the common mistakes for new Go developers. The book covers basic type and error handling. It explores applications that interact with users, such as websites, command-line tools, or via the file system. It demonstrates how to handle advanced topics such as parallelism, distributed systems, and performance tuning. Lastly, it finishes with reactive and serverless programming in Go.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Using Kafka with Sarama

Kafka is a popular distributed message queue with a lot of advanced functions for building distributed systems. This recipe will show how to write to a Kafka topic using a synchronous producer and how to consume the same topic using a partition consumer. This recipe will not explore different configurations of Kafka as that is a much wider topic, but I suggest beginning at https://kafka.apache.org/intro.

Getting ready