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Mastering Go – Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Mastering Go – Third Edition - Third Edition

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By: Mihalis Tsoukalos

Overview of this book

Mastering Go is the essential guide to putting Go to work on real production systems. This freshly updated third edition includes topics like creating RESTful servers and clients, understanding Go generics, and developing gRPC servers and clients. Mastering Go was written for programmers who want to explore the capabilities of Go in practice. As you work your way through the chapters, you’ll gain confidence and a deep understanding of advanced Go concepts, including concurrency and the operation of the Go Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You’ll also improve your understanding of Go internals to optimize Go code and use data types and data structures in new and unexpected ways. This essential Go programming book will also take you through the nuances and idioms of Go with exercises and resources to fully embed your newly acquired knowledge. With the help of Mastering Go, you’ll become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Fuzzing

As software engineers, we do not worry when things go as expected but when unexpected things happen. One way to deal with the unexpected is fuzzing. Fuzzing (or fuzz testing) is a testing technique that provides invalid, unexpected, or random data on programs that require input.

The advantages of fuzzing include the following:

  • Making sure that the code can handle invalid or random input
  • Bugs that are discovered with fuzzing are usually severe and might indicate security risks
  • Attackers often use fuzzing for locating vulnerabilities, so it is good to be prepared

Fuzzing is going to be officially included in the Go language in a future Go release, but do not expect it in 2021. It is most likely going to be officially released with Go version 1.18 or Go version 1.19. The dev.fuzz branch at GitHub (https://github.com/golang/go/tree/dev.fuzz) contains the latest implementation of fuzzing. This branch is going to exist until the relevant code...