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Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects

You're reading from   Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects Build production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques

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Product type Course
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788390552
Length 1091 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mario Castro Contreras Mario Castro Contreras
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Mat Ryer Mat Ryer
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Vladimir Vivien Vladimir Vivien
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Table of Contents (38) Chapters Close

Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects
Credits
Preface
Bibliography
1. A First Step in Go 2. Go Language Essentials FREE CHAPTER 3. Go Control Flow 4. Data Types 5. Functions in Go 6. Go Packages and Programs 7. Composite Types 8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects 9. Concurrency 10. Data IO in Go 11. Writing Networked Services 12. Code Testing 13. Ready... Steady... Go! 14. Creational Patterns - Singleton, Builder, Factory, Prototype, and Abstract Factory Design Patterns 15. Structural Patterns - Composite, Adapter, and Bridge Design Patterns 16. Structural Patterns - Proxy, Facade, Decorator, and Flyweight Design Patterns 17. Behavioral Patterns - Strategy, Chain of Responsibility, and Command Design Patterns 18. Behavioral Patterns - Template, Memento, and Interpreter Design Patterns 19. Behavioral Patterns - Visitor, State, Mediator, and Observer Design Patterns 20. Introduction to Gos Concurrency 21. Concurrency Patterns - Barrier, Future, and Pipeline Design Patterns 22. Concurrency Patterns - Workers Pool and Publish/Subscriber Design Patterns 23. Chat Application with Web Sockets 24. Adding User Accounts 25. Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures 26. Command-Line Tools to Find Domain Names 27. Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data 28. Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API 29. Random Recommendations Web Service 30. Filesystem Backup 31. Building a Q&A Application for Google App Engine 32. Micro-services in Go with the Go kit Framework 33. Deploying Go Applications Using Docker 1. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment

Functions


A function is a small portion of code that surrounds some action you want to perform and returns one or more values (or nothing). They are the main tool for developer to maintain structure, encapsulation, and code readability but also allow an experienced programmer to develop proper unit tests against his or her functions.

Functions can be very simple or incredibly complex. Usually, you'll find that simpler functions are also easier to maintain, test and debug. There is also a very good advice in computer science world that says: A function must do just one thing, but it must do it damn well.

What does a function look like?

A function is a piece of code with its own variables and flow that doesn't affect anything outside of the opening and close brackets but global package or program variables. Functions in Go has the following composition:

func [function_name] (param1 type, param2 type...) (returned type1, returned type2...) { 
    //Function body 
} 

Following the...

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