Build Systems With Go Everything a Gopher must know

Everything a Gopher must know in a single book!!!

Second edition (v0.2.0) with revisited content, enhanced explanations, a new chapter about Cgo, and more awesome gophers.

Do not stay in the basics, move forward and learn how you can use Go to build systems using restful APIs, gRPC messaging, powerful loggers, middlware, SQL/noSQL databases, data streaming, and more. A book written for new adopters and experienced developers.

• More than 200 detailed examples.
• Code available in GitHub for free.
• Concise explanations from basic to advanced levels.
• Explore advanced topics: reflection, concurrency, benchmarking, profiling, etc.
• Learn how developers use Go: modules, tags, CLIs, encodings, etc.
• Learn how to build systems with gRPC, Kafka, Cassandra, MySQL, Cobra, and more.

Contents

• Part I: The GO language
  • First steps with Go
  • The basics
  • Arrays, slices, and maps
  • Structs, methods and interfaces
  • Reflection
  • Concurrency
  • Input/Output
  • Encodings
  • HTTP
  • Templates
  • Testing
  • Modules and documentation
  • Cgo
• Part II: Building systems
  • Protocol buffers
  • gRPC
  • Logging with Zerolog
  • Command line interface
  • Relational databases
  • NoSQL databases
  • Kafka

The author

Juan M. Tirado has been programming half of his life. He holds a Ph. D. in computer science and has been a researcher at the UC3M, INRIA, and the University of Cambridge. He is interested in how data can be leveraged to enhance large scale distributed systems. With a background between a systems architect and a data scientist, he helps companies to design and implement data-driven solutions. In his free time, he enjoys music, mountaineering, and tapas.