Mastering Go - Fourth Edition: Leverage Go's expertise for advanced utilities, empowering you to develop professional software 4th ed. Edition
by Mihalis Tsoukalos (Author)

--ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1805127144
--ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1805127147

Dive into the core of Go programming and cover advanced topics like generics, concurrency, web services, and cutting-edge testing techniques in this comprehensive fourth edition.

Key Features
*Fully updated with coverage of web services, TCP/IP, REST APIs, Go Generics, and Fuzzy Testing
*Apply your new knowledge to real-world exercises, building high-performance servers and robust command-line utilities, to deepen your learning
*Gain clarity on what makes Go different, understand its nuances and features for smoother Go development.

What you will learn

*Learn Go data types, error handling, constants, pointers, and array and slice manipulations through practical exercises
*Create generic functions, define data types, explore constraints, and grasp interfaces and reflections
*Grasp advanced concepts like packages, modules, functions, and database interaction
*Create concurrent RESTful servers, and build TCP/IP clients and servers
*Learn testing, profiling, and efficient coding for high-performance applications
*Develop an SQLite package, explore Docker integration, and embrace workspaces
Who this book is for
Mastering Go is written primarily for Go programmers who have some experience with the language and want to become expert practitioners. You will need to know the basics of computer programming before you get started with this book, but beyond that, anyone can sink their teeth into it.

Table of Contents

1·A Quick Introduction to Go
2·Basic Go Data Types
3·Composite Data Types
4·Go Generics
5·Reflection and Interfaces
6·Go Packages and Functions
7·Telling a UNIX System What to Do
8·Go Concurrency
9·Building Web Services
10·Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket
11·Working with REST APIs
12·Code Testing and Profiling
13·Fuzz Testing and Observability
14·Efficiency and Performance
15·Changes in Recent Go Versions
16·Appendix