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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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Processes, threads, and goroutines

A process is an OS representation of a running program, while a program is a binary file on a disk that contains all the information necessary for creating an OS process. The binary file is written in a specific format and contains all the instructions the CPU is going to run, as well as a plethora of other required sections. That program is loaded into memory and the instructions are executed, creating a running process. So, a process carries with it additional resources such as memory, opened file descriptions, and user data, as well as other types of resources that are obtained during runtime.

A thread is a smaller and lighter entity than a process. Processes consist of one or more threads that have their own flow of control and stack. A quick and simplistic way to differentiate a thread from a process is to consider a process as the running binary file and a thread as a subset of a process.

A goroutine is the minimum Go entity that can...

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