Go in Practice

Summary

Go in Practice guides you through 70 real-world
techniques in key areas like package management, microservice
communication, and more. Following a cookbook-style
Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook builds
on the foundational concepts of the Go language and introduces
specific strategies you can use in your day-to-day
applications.

About the Technology

Go may be the perfect systems language. Built with simplicity,
concurrency, and modern applications in mind, Go provides the core
tool set for rapidly building web, cloud, and systems applications.
If you know a language like Java or C#, it’s easy to get
started with Go; the trick is finding the practical
dirt-under-the-fingernails techniques that you need to build
production-ready code.

About the Book

Go in Practice guides you through dozens of real-world
techniques in key areas. Following a cookbook-style
Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook builds
on the foundational concepts of the Go language and introduces
specific strategies you can use in your day-to-day applications.
You’ll learn techniques for building web services, using Go
in the cloud, testing and debugging, routing, network applications,
and much more. After finishing this book, you will be ready to
build sophisticated cloud-native Go applications.

What’s Inside

About the Reader

Written for experienced developers who have already started
exploring Go and want to use it effectively in a production
setting.

About the Authors

Matt Butcher is a software architect at Deis. Matt Farina is a
Principal Engineer in the Advanced Technology Group at Hewlett
Packard Enterprise. They are both authors, speakers, and regular
open source contributors.