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Go Programming Blueprints

Go Programming Blueprints

By : Mat Ryer
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Go Programming Blueprints

Go Programming Blueprints

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By: Mat Ryer
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Overview of this book

Intended for seasoned Go programmers who want to put their expertise in Go to use to solve big, real-world, modern problems. With a basic understanding of channels and goroutines, you will hone your skills to build tools and programs that are quick and simple. You need not be an expert in distributed systems or technologies in order to deliver solutions capable of great scale. It is assumed that you are familiar with the basic concepts of Go.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Chat Application with Web Sockets
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1. Chat Application with Web Sockets
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A simple web server
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Modeling a chat room and clients on the server
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Building an HTML and JavaScript chat client
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Tracing code to get a look under the hood
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Summary
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2. Adding Authentication
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2. Adding Authentication
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Handlers all the way down
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Making a pretty social sign-in page
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Endpoints with dynamic paths
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OAuth2
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Tell the authentication providers about your app
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Implementing external logging in
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3. Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures
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3. Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures
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Avatars from the authentication server
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Implementing Gravatar
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Uploading an avatar picture
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Combining all three implementations
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Summary
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4. Command-line Tools to Find Domain Names
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4. Command-line Tools to Find Domain Names
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Pipe design for command-line tools
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Five simple programs
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Composing all five programs
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Summary
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5. Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data
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5. Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data
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System design
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Installing the environment
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Votes from Twitter
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Counting votes
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Running our solution
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6. Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API
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6. Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API
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RESTful API design
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Sharing data between handlers
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Wrapping handler functions
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Responding
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Understanding the request
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A simple main function to serve our API
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Handling endpoints
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A web client that consumes the API
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Running the solution
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7. Random Recommendations Web Service
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7. Random Recommendations Web Service
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Project overview
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Representing data in code
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Generating random recommendations
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8. Filesystem Backup
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8. Filesystem Backup
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Solution design
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Backup package
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The user command-line tool
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The daemon backup tool
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Testing our solution
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A. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment
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A. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment
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Installing Go
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Configuring Go
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Go tools
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Cleaning up, building, and running tests on save
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Index
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Index

A simple main function to serve our API

A web service is nothing more than a simple Go program that binds to a specific HTTP address and port and serves requests, so we get to use all our command-line tool-writing knowledge and techniques.

Tip

We also want to ensure that our main function is as simple and modest as possible, which is always a goal of coding, especially in Go.

Before we write our main function, let's look at a few design goals of our API program:

  • We should be able to specify the HTTP address and port to which our API listens and the address of the MongoDB instances without having to recompile the program (through command-line flags)

  • We want the program to gracefully shut down when we terminate it, allowing the in-flight requests (requests that are still being processed when the termination signal is sent to our program) to complete

  • We want the program to log out status updates and report errors properly

Atop the main.go file, replace the main function placeholder with the following...

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