Go in Practice, Second Edition

Practical techniques for building concurrent, cloud-native, and high performance Go applications-all accelerated with productivity-boosting AI tools.

Go in Practice, Second Edition is full of tips, tricks, best practices, and expert insights into how to get things done with Go. It builds on your existing knowledge of the Go language, introducing specific strategies you can use to maximize your productivity in day-to-day dev work.

In Go in Practice, Second Edition, you'll learn:

Concurrency with goroutines and channels Web servers and microservices with event streams and websockets Logging, caching, and data access from environment variables and files Cloud-native Go applications AI tools to accelerate your development workflow

Go in Practice, Second Edition has been extensively revised by author Nathan Kozyra to cover the latest version of Go, along with new dev techniques, including productivity-boosting AI tools. It follows an instantly-familiar cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, building on what you already know about Go with advanced or little-known techniques for concurrency, logging and caching, microservices, testing, deployment, and more. About the technology: You've mastered the basics of Go-now what? To build production-quality Go applications, you'll need to handle concurrency, networking, file access, native communication protocols like gRPC and TCP/REST, and a host of other practical issues. Following a friendly cookbook format, this book gives you instantly-useful solutions to the problems you'll see on the job.