You're reading from System Programming Essentials with Go System calls, networking, efficiency, and security practices with practical projects in Golang

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837634132

Length 408 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Alex Rios

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Why Go? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Refreshing Concurrency and Parallelism

4. Part 2: Interaction with the OS

5. Chapter 3: Understanding System Calls

6. Chapter 4: File and Directory Operations

7. Chapter 5: Working with System Events

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Pipes in Inter-Process Communication

9. Chapter 7: Unix Sockets

10. Part 3: Performance

11. Chapter 8: Memory Management

12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Performance

13. Part 4: Connected Apps

14. Chapter 10: Networking

15. Chapter 11: Telemetry

16. Chapter 12: Distributing Your Apps

17. Part 5: Going Beyond

18. Chapter 13: Capstone Project – Distributed Cache

19. Chapter 14: Effective Coding Practices

20. Chapter 15: Stay Sharp with System Programming

21. Index

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Appendix : Hardware Automation

Securing the connection

TLS is the savior of online privacy and a protector against snooping eyes. You might think that because Go makes so many things delightfully simple, setting up a secure channel with TLS will be equally breezy. Brace yourselves, my friends, for here lies a cryptographic labyrinth that rivals the tax codes of most industrialized nations.

Think of TLS as trying to encrypt your most embarrassing secrets by following a recipe written in ancient hieroglyphics, with half the instructions missing and a shadowy figure lurking nearby, gleefully attempting to decipher your scribbles. Certificates, key exchanges, cipher suites... TLS is an alphabet soup of acronyms designed to make your head spin.

Certificates

TLS certificates are a fundamental aspect of secure communication over the internet, providing encryption, authentication, and integrity. In the context of Go, TLS certificates are used to secure communication between clients and servers, such as in HTTPS...