Go Programming Blueprints

Build real-world, production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques

About This Book

• Learn to apply the nuances of the Go language, and get to know the open source community that surrounds it to implement a wide range of start-up quality projects
• Write interesting, and clever but simple code, and learn skills and techniques that are directly transferrable to your own projects
• Discover how to write code capable of delivering massive world-class scale performance and availability

Who This Book Is For

Intended for seasoned Go programmers who want to put their expertise in Go to use to solve big, real-world, modern problems. With a basic understanding of channels and goroutines, you will hone your skills to build tools and programs that are quick and simple. You need not be an expert in distributed systems or technologies in order to deliver solutions capable of great scale. It is assumed that you are familiar with the basic concepts of Go.

In Detail

Dive headfirst into solving actual enterprise problems and start cutting code from the word go. You will build complete applications around a variety of subjects using a range of different technologies and techniques, all of which are directly applicable to today’s tech start-up world.

Scale, performance, and high availability lie at the heart of the projects, and the lessons learned throughout this book will arm you with everything you need to build world-class solutions. Well-designed applications and sensible architectures can scale horizontally to cope with the demands of up to millions of users, while avoiding the prohibitive up-front investment that can bring a project to its knees.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Chat Application with Web Sockets
Chapter 2: Adding Authentication
Chapter 3: Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures
Chapter 4: Command-line Tools to Find Domain Names
Chapter 5: Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data
Chapter 6: Exposing Data and Functionality Through a RESTful Data Web Service API
Chapter 7: Random Recommendations Web Service
Chapter 8: Filesystem Backup
Appendix: Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment