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Go: Building Web Applications

By : Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer
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Go: Building Web Applications

By: Nathan Kozyra, Mat Ryer

Overview of this book

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It is a statically typed language with syntax loosely derived from that of C, adding garbage collection, type safety, some dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types such as variable-length arrays and key-value maps, and a large standard library. This course starts with a walkthrough of the topics most critical to anyone building a new web application. Whether it’s keeping your application secure, connecting to your database, enabling token-based authentication, or utilizing logic-less templates, this course has you covered. Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of the projects, and the lessons learned throughout this course will arm you with everything you need to build world-class solutions. It will also take you through the history of concurrency, how Go utilizes it, how Go differs from other languages, and the features and structures of Go's concurrency core. It will make you feel comfortable designing a safe, data-consistent, and high-performance concurrent application in Go. This course is an invaluable resource to help you understand Go's powerful features to build simple, reliable, secure, and efficient web applications.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 8. Concurrent Application Architecture

By now, we've designed small bits of concurrent programs, primarily in a single piece keeping concurrency largely isolated. What we haven't done yet is tie everything together to build something a little more robust, complex, and more daunting to manage from an administrator's perspective.

Simple chat applications and web servers are fine and dandy. However, you will eventually need more complexity and require external software to meet all of the more advanced requirements.

In this case, we'll build something that's satisfied by a few dissonant services: a file manager with revision control that supplies web and shell access. Services such as Dropbox and Google Drive allow users to keep and share files among peers. On the other hand, GitHub and its ilk allow for a similar platform but with the critical added benefit of revision control.

Many organizations face problems with the following sharing and distribution...