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Mastering Go – Third Edition
Mastering Go – Third Edition

Mastering Go – Third Edition: Harness the power of Go to build professional utilities and concurrent servers and services , Third Edition

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  • This third edition of the bestselling guide to advanced Go programming has been overhauled and expanded to cover RESTful servers, the WebSocket protocol, and Go generics
  • Use real-world exercises to build high-performance network servers and powerful command line utilities
  • Packed with practical examples and utilities to apply to your own development work and administrative tasks
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Mastering Go is the essential guide to putting Go to work on real production systems. This freshly updated third edition includes topics like creating RESTful servers and clients, understanding Go generics, and developing gRPC servers and clients. Mastering Go was written for programmers who want to explore the capabilities of Go in practice. As you work your way through the chapters, you’ll gain confidence and a deep understanding of advanced Go concepts, including concurrency and the operation of the Go Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You’ll also improve your understanding of Go internals to optimize Go code and use data types and data structures in new and unexpected ways. This essential Go programming book will also take you through the nuances and idioms of Go with exercises and resources to fully embed your newly acquired knowledge. With the help of Mastering Go, you’ll become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.

Who is this book for?

You’ll need to know the basics of Go before you get started with this book, but beyond that, anyone can sink their teeth into it. It’s written primarily for Go programmers who have a bit of experience with the language and want to become expert practitioners.

What you will learn

  • Use Go in production
  • Write reliable, high-performance concurrent code
  • Manipulate data structures including slices, arrays, maps, and pointers
  • Develop reusable packages with reflection and interfaces
  • Become familiar with generics for effective Go programming
  • Create concurrent RESTful servers, and build gRPC clients and servers
  • Define Go structures for working with JSON data

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Sunny Mittal Jan 24, 2022
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Mastering Go is truly a great resource for learning and mastering the Go programming language. I don't use Go professionally but have always wanted to really learn it well to no avail. I decided to finally sit down and spend some focused time with this book and few distractions to patch gaps in the knowledge I've acquired over the years and have finally been able to grasp concepts that evaded me previously. I'm particularly interested in Go's concurrency model which seemed so mysterious before but has finally clicked with the help of this book. One piece of advice for anyone using this book to learn Go is to download the source code when it's omitted for brevity in a chapter but type up as much as you can on your own while reading the relevant explanations given by the authors. What I really love about Mastering Go is that code is not shown in its entirety and then explained from the top down; it's explained (mostly) line by line which helps a lot when coming from a language like JavaScript or Ruby (like me), which oftentimes can be explained top down with no loss of understanding. Go's a different beast which is what makes it such a great language to learn. Like any language, it requires dedication to really learn properly, but the Go team has managed to create an amazingly terse language to solve a variety of programming challenges, keeping performance in mind all along. I highly recommend learning Go and absolutely recommend Mastering Go as a resource in that adventure.
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JACOB Oct 02, 2021
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“I find the book easy to follow and easy to read. Lots of practical examples and exercises at the end of each chapter. Overall, a great good that is highly recommended!”
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Thomas Manthey Dec 29, 2021
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Wer bereits etwas Go kennt und nun den professionellen Umgang mit der Sprache erlernen möchte, findet hier wertvolle Anregungen. Ebenso derjenige, der bereits erfahren in einer anderen Programmiersprache ist und nun umsteigt. Wer nie zuvor programmiert hat, sollte sich ein anderes Werk aussuchen.
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Si Dunn Jan 20, 2022
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I like the clarity and depth of coverage in this book, the many different topics that are addressed, and the numerous code examples. I have been wanting to elevate my skills above the first-floor level in Go, and this updated third edition of "Mastering Go" is helping me get there. To be honest, I have played with Go several times since it first appeared, but my computer work has involved JavaScript, Angular, MEAN stacks, Python, R and others. Go has kept getting pushed aside. Now, however, Go often makes it into the top-10 rankings in surveys of the most popular computer languages. So, I want to know more and get better at working with it. This third edition of "Mastering Go" is helping me do that. Note: There is a noticeable UNIX bias in some of the discussions--the author, after all, is a UNIX systems engineer who has written other books about Go. In a paragraph titled "Why UNIX and not Windows?", he writes: "You might ask why we're talking about UNIX...and not discussing Microsoft Windows as well. There are two main reasons for this. The first reason is that most Go programs will work on Windows machines without any code changes, because Go is portable by design--this means you should not worry about the operating system you are using." I haven't tried all of his code examples yet on my Windows machine, but I've tried quite a few, and they work exactly as described in the book. I also haven't yet tried them on my Linux computer. But Linux sites assure me Go will work there, too. Bottom line: This book is meeting my current need to gain more skills at working with Go, and I recommend it to others who have gotten past "Hello, World!" and some other basic Go programs in beginner's books.
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Jeff Oct 16, 2021
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Definitely an excellent read on modern systems and network programming that's on a very short list of necessary Go programming language books. I highly recommend it!
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