Go in Practice, Second Edition (MEAP V02)

English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781633436886 | 237 pages | PDF,EPUB | 7.45 MB

Practical techniques for building concurrent, cloud-native, and high performance Go applicationsall accelerated with productivity-boosting AI tools.

Go in Practice, Second Edition is a cookbook-style collection of the techniques and best practices you need to build production-quality Go applications. It builds on your existing knowledge of the Go language, introducing specific strategies you can use to maximize your productivity in day-to-day dev work.

In Go in Practice, Second Edition, youll learn
Concurrency with goroutines and channels
Web servers and microservices with event streams and websockets
Logging, caching, and data access from environment variables and files
Cloud-native Go applications
AI tools to accelerate your development workflow

Go in Practice, Second Edition has been extensively revised by author Nathan Kozyra to cover the latest version of Go, along with new dev techniques, including productivity-boosting AI tools. It follows an instantly-familiar cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, building on what you already know about Go with advanced or little-known techniques for concurrency, logging and caching, microservices, testing, deployment, and more.

about the book
Go in Practice, Second Edition gives you practical guidance on the ins-and-outs of Go development, covering the standard library and the most important tools from Gos powerful ecosystem. Youll find practical techniques for concurrency with goroutines and channels, building high-performance web services, creating effective microservices, testing and deployment, and much more. Learn how to gracefully handle errors and unexpected situations in Go, understand Go’s error and panic models, and create comprehensive test suites that help prevent bugs. Plus, throughout youll see how you can augment your productivity by integrating AI code completion into your development process.

about the reader
For intermediate developers with previous experience in Go.

about the authors
Nathan Kozyra is a full-stack developer with twenty years of experience building production web and mobile applications. He’s worked with Go since 2009 in both large companies and startups. Nathan has a masters in computer science with a focus on machine learning.