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Mastering Go – Third Edition

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By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Mastering Go – Third Edition

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By: Mihalis Tsoukalos
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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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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Get in touch
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A Quick Introduction to Go
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A Quick Introduction to Go
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Introducing Go
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Hello World!
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Running Go code
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Important characteristics of Go
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Developing the which(1) utility in Go
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Logging information
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Overview of Go generics
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Developing a basic phone book application
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Basic Go Data Types
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Basic Go Data Types
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The error data type
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Numeric data types
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Non-numeric data types
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Go constants
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Grouping similar data
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Pointers
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Generating random numbers
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Updating the phone book application
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Composite Data Types
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Composite Data Types
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Maps
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Structures
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Regular expressions and pattern matching
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Improving the phone book application
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Reflection and Interfaces
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Reflection and Interfaces
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Reflection
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Type methods
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Interfaces
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Working with two different CSV file formats
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Object-oriented programming in Go
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Updating the phone book application
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Go Packages and Functions
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Go Packages and Functions
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Go packages
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Functions
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Developing your own packages
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Using GitHub to store Go packages
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A package for working with a database
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Modules
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Creating better packages
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Generating documentation
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GitLab Runners and Go
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GitHub Actions and Go
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Versioning utilities
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Telling a UNIX System What to Do
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Telling a UNIX System What to Do
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stdin, stdout, and stderr
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UNIX processes
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Handling UNIX signals
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File I/O
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Reading text files
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Writing to a file
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Working with JSON
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Working with XML
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Working with YAML
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The viper package
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The cobra package
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Finding cycles in a UNIX file system
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New to Go 1.16
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Updating the phone book application
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Go Concurrency
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Go Concurrency
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Processes, threads, and goroutines
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The Go scheduler
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Goroutines
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Channels
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Race conditions
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The select keyword
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Timing out a goroutine
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Go channels revisited
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Shared memory and shared variables
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Closured variables and the go statement
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The context package
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The semaphore package
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Building Web Services
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Building Web Services
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The net/http package
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Creating a web server
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Updating the phone book application
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Exposing metrics to Prometheus
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Developing web clients
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Creating file servers
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Timing out HTTP connections
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket
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Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket
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TCP/IP
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The net package
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Developing a TCP client
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Developing a TCP server
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Developing a UDP client
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Developing a UDP server
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Developing concurrent TCP servers
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Working with UNIX domain sockets
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Creating a WebSocket server
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Creating a WebSocket client
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Working with REST APIs
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Working with REST APIs
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An introduction to REST
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Developing RESTful servers and clients
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Creating a functional RESTful server
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Creating a RESTful client
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Uploading and downloading binary files
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Using Swagger for REST API documentation
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Code Testing and Profiling
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Code Testing and Profiling
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Optimizing code
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Benchmarking code
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Profiling code
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The go tool trace utility
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Testing Go code
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Testing an HTTP server with a database backend
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Fuzzing
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Cross-compilation
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Using go:generate
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Creating example functions
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Working with gRPC
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Working with gRPC
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Introduction to gRPC
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Defining an interface definition language file
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Developing a gRPC server
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Developing a gRPC client
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Go Generics
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Go Generics
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Introducing generics
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Constraints
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Defining new data types with generics
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Interfaces versus generics
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Reflection versus generics
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Exercises
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Summary
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Additional resources
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index
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Index
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Appendix A – Go Garbage Collector
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Appendix A – Go Garbage Collector
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Heap and stack
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Garbage collection
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Additional resources

An introduction to generics

Generics is a feature that allows you the capability of not precisely specifying the data type of one or more function parameters, mainly because you want to make your functions as universal as possible. In other words, generics allow functions to process several data types without the need to write any special code, as is the case with the empty interface and interfaces in general. Interfaces are covered in Chapter 5, Reflection and Interfaces.

When working with interfaces in Go, you must write extra code to determine the data type of the interface variable you are working with, which is not the case with generics.

Let me begin by presenting a small code example that implements a function that clearly shows a case where generics can be handy and save you from having to write lots of code:

func PrintSlice[T any](s []T) {
    for _, v := range s {
        fmt.Println(v)
    }
}

So, what do we have here? There is a function named...

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