Go in Action

Go in Action introduces the Go language, guiding you from inquisitive developer to Go guru. The book begins by introducing the unique features and concepts of Go. Then, you'll get hands-on experience writing real-world applications including websites and network servers, as well as techniques to manipulate and convert data at speeds that will make your friends jealous.

About the Technology

Application development can be tricky enough even when you aren't dealing with complex systems programming problems like web-scale concurrency and real-time performance. While it's possible to solve these common issues with additional tools and frameworks, Go handles them right out of the box, making for a more natural and productive coding experience. Developed at Google, Go powers nimble startups as well as big enterprises-companies that rely on high-performing services in their infrastructure.

What's Inside
• Language specification and implementation
• Go's type system
• Internals of Go's data structures
• Testing and benchmarking

Table of Contents
• Introducing Go
• Go quick-start
• Packaging and tooling
• Arrays, slices, and maps
• Go's type system
• Concurrency
• Concurrency patterns
• Standard library
• Testing and benchmarking