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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

Working with gRPC

This chapter is about working with gRPC in Go. gRPC, which stands for gRPC Remote Procedure Calls, is an alternative to RESTful services that was developed by Google. The main advantage of gRPC is that it is faster than working with REST and JSON messages. Additionally, creating clients for gRPC services is also faster due to the available tooling. Last, as gRPC uses the binary data format, it is lighter than RESTful services that work with the JSON format.

The process for creating a gRPC server and client has three main steps. The first step is creating the interface definition language (IDL) file, the second step is the development of the gRPC server, and the third step is the development of the gRPC client that can interact with the gRPC server.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to gRPC
  • Defining an interface definition language file
  • Developing a gRPC server
  • Developing a gRPC client