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Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

By : Achilleas Anagnostopoulos
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Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

By: Achilleas Anagnostopoulos

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, Go has become one of the favorite languages for building scalable and distributed systems. Its opinionated design and built-in concurrency features make it easy for engineers to author code that efficiently utilizes all available CPU cores. This Golang book distills industry best practices for writing lean Go code that is easy to test and maintain, and helps you to explore its practical implementation by creating a multi-tier application called Links ‘R’ Us from scratch. You’ll be guided through all the steps involved in designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and scaling an application. Starting with a monolithic architecture, you’ll iteratively transform the project into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that supports the efficient out-of-core processing of large link graphs. You’ll learn about various cutting-edge and advanced software engineering techniques such as building extensible data processing pipelines, designing APIs using gRPC, and running distributed graph processing algorithms at scale. Finally, you’ll learn how to compile and package your Go services using Docker and automate their deployment to a Kubernetes cluster. By the end of this book, you’ll know how to think like a professional software developer or engineer and write lean and efficient Go code.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Software Engineering and the Software Development Life Cycle
3
Section 2: Best Practices for Maintainable and Testable Go Code
7
Section 3: Designing and Building a Multi-Tier System from Scratch
14
Section 4: Scaling Out to Handle a Growing Number of Users
18
Epilogue

Epilogue

At this point, I would like to congratulate you on completing this book and extend to you a big thanks for taking the time to read every single chapter up to the very end. I sincerely hope that you had as much pleasure reading this book as I had writing it and that you can take some of the principles and concepts that we discussed through these pages and apply them to your current and future Go projects.

Having said that, I have a small favor to ask of you. Should you locate any errors either in the content of this book or the accompanying code, please don't hesitate to reach out and let me know. What's more, I would certainly love hearing your thoughts on the topics that were addressed in this book! You can contact me either via Packt Publishing or through this book's GitHub repository.

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