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Mastering Go - Second Edition

By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
Book Image

Mastering Go - Second Edition

By: Mihalis Tsoukalos

Overview of this book

Often referred to (incorrectly) as Golang, Go is the high-performance systems language of the future. Mastering Go, Second Edition helps you become a productive expert Go programmer, building and improving on the groundbreaking first edition. Mastering Go, Second Edition shows how to put Go to work on real production systems. For programmers who already know the Go language basics, this book provides examples, patterns, and clear explanations to help you deeply understand Go’s capabilities and apply them in your programming work. The book covers the nuances of Go, with in-depth guides on types and structures, packages, concurrency, network programming, compiler design, optimization, and more. Each chapter ends with exercises and resources to fully embed your new knowledge. This second edition includes a completely new chapter on machine learning in Go, guiding you from the foundation statistics techniques through simple regression and clustering to classification, neural networks, and anomaly detection. Other chapters are expanded to cover using Go with Docker and Kubernetes, Git, WebAssembly, JSON, and more. If you take the Go programming language seriously, the second edition of this book is an essential guide on expert techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Where to go next?

Philosophically speaking, no programming book can ever be perfect, and neither is this book! Did I leave some Go topics out? Absolutely, yes! Why? Because there are always more topics that could be covered in a book, so if I tried to cover everything, the book would never be ready for publication. This situation is somehow analogous to the specifications of a program: you can always add new and exciting features, but if you do not freeze its specifications, the program will always be under development and will never be ready.

The good thing is that after reading this book, you will be ready to learn on your own, which is the biggest benefit you can get from any good computer book on programming. The main purpose of this book is to help you to learn how to program in Go and gain some experience. However, there is no substitute for trying things on your own and...