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You're reading from Hands-On System Programming with Go Build modern and concurrent applications for Unix and Linux systems using Golang

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789804072

Length 458 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Programming

Author (1):

Alex Guerrieri

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: An Introduction to System Programming and Go FREE CHAPTER

2. An Introduction to System Programming

3. Unix OS Components

4. An Overview of Go

5. Section 2: Advanced File I/O Operations

6. Working with the Filesystem

7. Handling Streams

8. Building Pseudo-Terminals

9. Section 3: Understanding Process Communication

10. Handling Processes and Daemons

11. Exit Codes, Signals, and Pipes

12. Network Programming

13. Data Encoding Using Go

14. Section 4: Deep Dive into Concurrency

15. Dealing with Channels and Goroutines

16. Synchronization with sync and atomic

17. Coordination Using Context

18. Implementing Concurrency Patterns

19. Section 5: A Guide to Using Reflection and CGO

20. Using Reflection

21. Using CGO

22. Assessments

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Coordination Using Context

This chapter is about the relatively new context package and its usage in concurrent programming. It is a very powerful tool by defining a unique interface that's used in many different places in the standard library, as well as in many third-party packages.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Understanding what context is
Studying its usage in the standard library
Creating a package that uses context

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Authors (1)

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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