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Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

You're reading from   Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang Move beyond basic programming to design and build reliable software with clean code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838554491
Length 640 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Achilleas Anagnostopoulos Achilleas Anagnostopoulos
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Software Engineering and the Software Development Life Cycle
2. A Bird's-Eye View of Software Engineering FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Best Practices for Maintainable and Testable Go Code
4. Best Practices for Writing Clean and Maintainable Go Code 5. Dependency Management 6. The Art of Testing 7. Section 3: Designing and Building a Multi-Tier System from Scratch
8. The Links 'R'; Us Project 9. Building a Persistence Layer 10. Data-Processing Pipelines 11. Graph-Based Data Processing 12. Communicating with the Outside World 13. Building, Packaging, and Deploying Software 14. Section 4: Scaling Out to Handle a Growing Number of Users
15. Splitting Monoliths into Microservices 16. Building Distributed Graph-Processing Systems 17. Metrics Collection and Visualization 18. Epilogue
19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Organizing code into packages

As we saw in the previous section, the application of the SOLID principles works as a guide for splitting our code base into smaller packages where each package implements a specific bit of functionality and its interfaces serve as the glue for wiring packages together when building larger systems.

In this section, we will be examining the idiomatic Go way for naming packages, as well as some common potential pitfalls you may encounter while authoring code that relies on a complex package dependency graph.

Naming conventions for Go packages

Let's say you come across a package named server. Is that a good name, as per the preceding suggestion? Well, obviously, we can guess that it's...

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