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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Leverage Go's expertise for advanced utilities, empowering you to develop professional software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805127147
Length 736 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Introduction to Go 2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Composite Data Types 4. Go Generics 5. Reflection and Interfaces 6. Go Packages and Functions 7. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 8. Go Concurrency 9. Building Web Services 10. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket 11. Working with REST APIs 12. Code Testing and Profiling 13. Fuzz Testing and Observability 14. Efficiency and Performance 15. Changes in Recent Go Versions 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix: The Go Garbage Collector

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

TCP/IP is the foundation of the Internet and, therefore, being able to create TCP/IP servers and clients is essential when developing network services. This chapter teaches you how to work with the lower-level protocols of TCP/IP, which are TCP and UDP, with the help of the net package, so that you can develop TCP/IP servers and clients and have more control over their functionality. The Go code of the TCP and UDP utilities included in this chapter allows us to create our own advanced TCP/IP services as the core principles and logic of TCP/IP remain the same.

Additionally, this chapter illustrates the development of servers and clients for the WebSocket protocol, which is based on HTTP, and shows how to interact with RabbitMQ, which is an open-source message broker.

The WebSocket protocol provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection. On the other hand, message brokers such as RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka are famous...

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