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Learning Go Programming

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Learning Go Programming

Overview of this book

The Go programming language has firmly established itself as a favorite for building complex and scalable system applications. Go offers a direct and practical approach to programming that let programmers write correct and predictable code using concurrency idioms and a full-featured standard library. This is a step-by-step, practical guide full of real world examples to help you get started with Go in no time at all. We start off by understanding the fundamentals of Go, followed by a detailed description of the Go data types, program structures and Maps. After this, you learn how to use Go concurrency idioms to avoid pitfalls and create programs that are exact in expected behavior. Next, you will be familiarized with the tools and libraries that are available in Go for writing and exercising tests, benchmarking, and code coverage. Finally, you will be able to utilize some of the most important features of GO such as, Network Programming and OS integration to build efficient applications. All the concepts are explained in a crisp and concise manner and by the end of this book; you would be able to create highly efficient programs that you can deploy over cloud.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Go Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewers

Quintessence Anx. is a superhero (also called as Cloud Engineer) at Stark & Wayne LLC by day and an astronomer with a passion for the Internet of Things by night. She is a chapter leader for her local Girl Develop It, where she empowers women programmers of all levels and abilities through classes and hands-on project experiences, as well as co-founder of City of Light 2.0, an organization working to bring more affordable, reliable, and faster internet to Western New York

Parth Desai is a polygot programmer and architect, and has worked on almost all popular languages like Golang, python, C#. He regularly contributes to various open-source golang projects, like a notification engine called “Khabar”, a http framework written in golang called “Gottp”, and media server called “moire”. He implemented url signing protocol using cryptography in python, from scratch.

He has also written custom single sign on solution (SSO) in c#, with proper implementation of oauth and saml protocols. He also developed pluggable architecture to facilitate easier adding and removing of authentication providers for the SSO. Currently, He is working as a lead backend engineer, and designing and implementing scalable systems in golang and python. You can reach out to him on linkedin at https://in.linkedin.com/in/parthdesai08. Or on his email-id [email protected].

Abhishek Kumar is a technologist in IT Industry since 2010 mainly working in Systems Programming, DevOps Practices and Security. He likes to keep in sync with all domains, paradigms and up-coming technologies to get a wholistic approach for problem solving and planning ahead. He loves to learn new programming languages. Abhishek has been using Golang since 2012. He started a timeseries datastore project in Golang by Sep'2013 and is currently pivoting it. [ @abionic | https://abhishekkr.github.io ]

Want to thank my mother ShivPyari to enable me choose my own path

Chris Schaefer software developer with a passion for learning new things. He enjoys writing code and participating in local community software events.