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Hands-On System Programming with Go

Hands-On System Programming with Go: Build modern and concurrent applications for Unix and Linux systems using Golang

Alex Guerrieri

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Paperback Jul 2019 458 pages 1st Edition

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Learn how to write Unix and Linux system code in Golang v1.12
Perform inter-process communication using pipes, message queues, shared memory, and semaphores
Explore modern Go features such as goroutines and channels that facilitate systems programming

Description

System software and applications were largely created using low-level languages such as C or C++. Go is a modern language that combines simplicity, concurrency, and performance, making it a good alternative for building system applications for Linux and macOS. This Go book introduces Unix and systems programming to help you understand the components the OS has to offer, ranging from the kernel API to the filesystem. You'll then familiarize yourself with Go and its specifications. You'll also learn how to optimize input and output operations with files and streams of data, which are useful tools in building pseudo-terminal applications. You'll gain insights into how processes communicate with each other, and learn about processes and daemon control using signals, pipes, and exit codes. This book will also enable you to understand how to use network communication using various protocols, including TCP and HTTP. As you advance, you'll focus on Go's best feature - concurrency, which will help you handle communication with channels and goroutines, other concurrency tools to synchronize shared resources, and the context package to write elegant applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build concurrent system applications using Go

Who is this book for?

If you are a developer who wants to learn system programming with Go, this book is for you. Although no knowledge of Unix and Linux system programming is necessary, intermediate knowledge of Go will help you understand the concepts covered in the book

What you will learn

Explore concepts of system programming using Go and concurrency
Gain insights into Golang s internals, memory models and allocation
Familiarize yourself with the filesystem and IO streams in general
Handle and control processes and daemons lifetime via signals and pipes
Communicate with other applications effectively using a network
Use various encoding formats to serialize complex data structures
Become well-versed in concurrency with channels, goroutines, and sync
Use concurrency patterns to build robust and performant system applications

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Product Details

Publication date : Jul 05, 2019

Length: 458 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781789804072

Vendor :

Google

Category :

Programming

Languages :

Go

Concepts :

System Programming

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Table of Contents

23 Chapters

Section 1: An Introduction to System Programming and Go

Section 1: An Introduction to System Programming and Go

An Introduction to System Programming

An Introduction to System Programming

Technical requirements

Beginning with system programming

Application programming interfaces

Understanding the protection ring

Diving into system calls

Understanding the POSIX standard

Unix OS Components

Unix OS Components

Technical requirements

Memory management

Understanding files and filesystems

Unix filesystem

Users, groups, and permissions

Process communications

An Overview of Go

An Overview of Go

Technical requirements

Language features

Variables and functions

Understanding flow control

Exploring built-in functions

Concurrency model

Understanding memory management

Building and compiling programs

Section 2: Advanced File I/O Operations

Section 2: Advanced File I/O Operations

Working with the Filesystem

Working with the Filesystem

Technical requirements

Reading from files

Writing to file

Other operations

Third-party packages

Handling Streams

Handling Streams

Technical requirements

Built-in utilities

Building Pseudo-Terminals

Building Pseudo-Terminals

Technical requirements

Understanding pseudo-terminals

Creating a basic PTY

Improving the PTY

Commands with status

Section 3: Understanding Process Communication

Section 3: Understanding Process Communication

Handling Processes and Daemons

Handling Processes and Daemons

Technical requirements

Understanding processes

Beginning with daemons

Creating a service

Exit Codes, Signals, and Pipes

Exit Codes, Signals, and Pipes

Technical requirements

Using exit codes

Handling signals

Connecting streams

Network Programming

Network Programming

Technical requirements

Communicating via networks

Understanding socket programming

Web servers in Go

Beginning with the template engine

Data Encoding Using Go

Data Encoding Using Go

Technical requirements

Understanding text-based encoding

Learning about binary encoding

Section 4: Deep Dive into Concurrency

Section 4: Deep Dive into Concurrency

Dealing with Channels and Goroutines

Dealing with Channels and Goroutines

Technical requirements

Understanding goroutines

Exploring channels

Combining channels and goroutines

Synchronization with sync and atomic

Synchronization with sync and atomic

Technical requirements

Synchronization primitives

Atomic operations

Coordination Using Context

Coordination Using Context

Technical requirements

Understanding context

Context in the standard library

Context in your application

Implementing Concurrency Patterns

Implementing Concurrency Patterns

Technical requirements

Beginning with generators

Sequencing with pipelines

Muxing and demuxing

Producers and consumers

Section 5: A Guide to Using Reflection and CGO

Section 5: A Guide to Using Reflection and CGO

Using Reflection

Using Reflection

Technical requirements

What's reflection?

Understanding basic mechanics

Handling complex types

Reflecting on reflection

Using CGO

Technical requirements

Introduction to CGO

The C and Go type systems

Working with slices

Working with structs

CGO recommendations

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Rok Biderman Sep 22, 2019

5

I would really recommend this book to someone starting out, but not completely new to Go. It would be a solid intro into systems programming but also appropriate for any programmers starting to work in Go who is struggling with applying concurrency patterns. It can also serve as a nice refresher for more experienced developers, as it's a more advanced book. Get yourself a good intro book into Go programming (there are plenty out there), and then go for this book to get you into the systems side of it.A basic understanding of programming concepts and of Go are worked through the book from a system's perspective, discovering the details that the usual programming books won't cover. The book is concise and well written, with good examples and can ease you into using Go as a tool to do Linux systems programming.Having picked up this book as a helper for a toy implementation of network accessible file system in Go I am building, the patterns in the third part of the book came pretty handy. It goes and delivers a comprehensive overview of concurrency patterns to ease the transition.Going deeper into these topics is essential for anyone interested in aspects of security, handy if you're trying to design high-performance applications or for someone like me, just trying to expand my knowledge.

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Jaime A Jul 03, 2020

4

Muy bueno, lo estoy leyendo todavía. estoy aprendiendo muchísimo sobre algunoz aspectos del lenguaje más orientados a sistemas. Muy recomendable

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Jerome Lanteri Apr 08, 2020

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Il n'y a que les titres et les introduction sur chaque chapitre. Ensuite tout le reste est inexistant.Bravo !

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About the author

Alex Guerrieri

Alex Guerrieri

Alex Guerrieri is a software developer who specializes in backend and distributed systems. Go has been his favorite tool for the job since first using it in 2013. He holds a degree in computer science engineering and has been working in the field for more than 6 years. Originally from Italy, where he completed his studies and started his career as a full-stack developer, he now lives in Spain, where he previously worked in two start-upssource{d} and Cabify. He is now working for three companiesas a software crafter for BBVA, one of the biggest Spanish banks; as a software architect for Security First, London, a company focusing on digital and physical security; and as a cofounder of DauMau, the company behind Vidsey, software that generates videos in a procedural manner.

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