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Go Systems Programming

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Go Systems Programming

Overview of this book

Go is the new systems programming language for Linux and Unix systems. It is also the language in which some of the most prominent cloud-level systems have been written, such as Docker. Where C programmers used to rule, Go programmers are in demand to write highly optimized systems programming code. Created by some of the original designers of C and Unix, Go expands the systems programmers toolkit and adds a mature, clear programming language. Traditional system applications become easier to write since pointers are not relevant and garbage collection has taken away the most problematic area for low-level systems code: memory management. This book opens up the world of high-performance Unix system applications to the beginning Go programmer. It does not get stuck on single systems or even system types, but tries to expand the original teachings from Unix system level programming to all types of servers, the cloud, and the web.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we talked about web development in Go including parsing, marshalling and unmarshalling JSON data, interacting with a MongoDB database; reading data from a MySQL database; creating web servers in Go; creating web clients in Go; and using the http.ServeMux type.

In the next chapter, we will talk about network programming in Go, which includes creating TCP and UDP clients and servers using low level commands. We will also teach you how to develop an RCP client and an RCP server in Go. If you love developing TCP/IP applications, then the last chapter of this book is for you!