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You're reading from Go Cookbook Build modular, readable, and testable applications in Go

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783286836

Length 400 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Aaron Torres

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. I/O and File Systems FREE CHAPTER

2. Command-Line Tools

3. Data Conversion and Composition

4. Error Handling in Go

5. All about Databases and Storage

6. Web Clients and APIs

7. Microservices for Applications in Go

8. Testing

9. Parallelism and Concurrency

10. Distributed Systems

11. Reactive Programming and Data Streams

12. Serverless Programming

13. Performance Improvements, Tips, and Tricks

Data Conversion and Composition

In this chapter, the following recipes will be covered:

Converting data types and interface casting
Working with numeric data types using math and math/big
Currency conversions and float64 considerations
Using pointers and SQL NullTypes for encoding and decoding
Encoding and decoding Go data
Struct tags and basic reflection in Go
Implementing collections via closures

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Authors (1)

Torres

Aaron Torres received his master's degree in computer science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He has worked on distributed systems in high-performance computing and in large-scale web and microservices applications. He currently leads a team of Go developers that refines and focuses on Go best practices with an emphasis on continuous delivery and automated testing. Aaron has published a number of papers and has several patents in the area of storage and I/O. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and ideas with others. He is also a huge fan of the Go language and open source for backend systems and development.

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