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Mastering Go – Third Edition

You're reading from Mastering Go – Third Edition Harness the power of Go to build professional utilities and concurrent servers and services

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801079310

Length 682 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

gRPC

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Mihalis Tsoukalos

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. A Quick Introduction to Go

2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER

3. Composite Data Types

4. Reflection and Interfaces

5. Go Packages and Functions

6. Telling a UNIX System What to Do

7. Go Concurrency

8. Building Web Services

9. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

10. Working with REST APIs

11. Code Testing and Profiling

12. Working with gRPC

13. Go Generics

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

15. Index

Appendix A – Go Garbage Collector

GitLab Runners and Go

When developing Go packages and documentation, you want to be able to test the results and find out bugs as quickly as possible. When everything works as expected, you might want to publish your results to the world automatically, without spending more time on this. One of the best solutions for this is using a CI/CD system for automating tasks. This section will briefly illustrate the use of GitLab Runners for automating Go projects.

In order to follow this section, you need to have a GitLab account, create a dedicated GitLab repository, and store the relevant files there.

We will begin with a GitLab repository that contains the following files:

hw.go: This is a sample program that is used to make sure that everything works.
.gitignore: It is not necessary to have such a file, but it is very handy for ignoring some files and directories.
usePost05.go: This is a sample Go file that uses an external package—please...

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Authors (1)

Mihalis Tsoukalos

Mihalis Tsoukalos

Mihalis Tsoukalos holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Patras and an MSc in IT from University College London, UK. His books, Go Systems Programming and Mastering Go, have become must-reads for Unix and Linux systems professionals. He enjoys writing technical articles and has written for Sys Admin, MacTech, C/C++ Users Journal, USENIX ;login:, Linux Journal, Linux User and Developer, Linux Format, and Linux Voice. His research interests include time series data mining, time series indexing, and databases.

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