Overview

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

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
• 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
• 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.