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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

Chapter 8

  1. The BSP computer is an abstract computer model made up of a collection of potentially heterogeneous processors that are interconnected via a computer network. Processors can not only access their own local memory, but they can also use the network link to exchange data with other processors. In other words, the BSP computer is effectively a distributed memory computer that can perform computations in parallel.
  2. The Single Program Multiple Data (SPMD) technique models distributed data processing tasks as a self-contained piece of software that runs on a single-core machine. The program receives a set of data as input, applies a processing function to it, and emits some output. Parallelism is then achieved by splitting the dataset into batches, launching multiple instances of the same program to process each batch in parallel, and combining the results.
  3. A super-step is...