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Mastering Go

Mastering Go - Fourth Edition

By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Mastering Go

Mastering Go

4.7 (28)
By: Mihalis Tsoukalos

Overview of this book

Mastering Go, now in its fourth edition, remains the go-to resource for real-world Go development. This comprehensive guide delves into advanced Go concepts, including RESTful servers, and Go memory management. This edition brings new chapters on Go Generics and fuzzy Testing, and an enriched exploration of efficiency and performance. As you work your way through the chapters, you will gain confidence and a deep understanding of advanced Go topics, including concurrency and the operation of the Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You will be engaged in real-world exercises, build network servers, and develop robust command-line utilities. With in-depth chapters on RESTful services, the WebSocket protocol, and Go internals, you are going to master Go's nuances, optimization, and observability. You will also elevate your skills in efficiency, performance, and advanced testing. With the help of Mastering Go, you will become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.
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File I/O

This section discusses file I/O in Go, which includes the use of the io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces, buffered and unbuffered I/O, as well as the bufio package.

The io/ioutil package (https://pkg.go.dev/io/ioutil) has been deprecated since Go version 1.16. Existing Go code that uses the functionality of io/ioutil will continue to work, but it is better to stop using that package.

The io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces

This subsection presents the definitions of the popular io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces because these two interfaces are the basis of file I/O in Go—the former allows you to read from a file, whereas the latter allows you to write to a file. The definition of the io.Reader interface is the following:

type Reader interface {
    Read(p []byte) (n int, err error)
}

This definition, which should be revisited when we want one of our data types to satisfy the io.Reader interface, tells us the following:

  • The Reader interface...
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