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A Bird's-Eye View of Software Engineering

"Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software."

- Larry Constantine ^[6]

Through the various stages of my career, I have met several people that knew how to code; people whose skill level ranged from beginner to, what some would refer to as, guru. All those people had different backgrounds and worked for both start-ups and large organizations. For some, coding was seen as a natural progression from their CS studies, while others turned to coding as part of a career change decision.

Regardless of all these differences, all of them had one thing in common: when asked to describe their current role, all of them used the term software engineer. It is quite a common practice for job candidates to use this term in their CVs as the means to set themselves...

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Apply best practices to produce lean, testable, and maintainable Go code to avoid accumulating technical debt

Explore Go’s built-in support for concurrency and message passing to build high-performance applications

Scale your Go programs across machines and manage their life cycle using Kubernetes

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Over the last few years, Go has become one of the favorite languages for building scalable and distributed systems. Its opinionated design and built-in concurrency features make it easy for engineers to author code that efficiently utilizes all available CPU cores. This Golang book distills industry best practices for writing lean Go code that is easy to test and maintain, and helps you to explore its practical implementation by creating a multi-tier application called Links ‘R’ Us from scratch. You’ll be guided through all the steps involved in designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and scaling an application. Starting with a monolithic architecture, you’ll iteratively transform the project into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that supports the efficient out-of-core processing of large link graphs. You’ll learn about various cutting-edge and advanced software engineering techniques such as building extensible data processing pipelines, designing APIs using gRPC, and running distributed graph processing algorithms at scale. Finally, you’ll learn how to compile and package your Go services using Docker and automate their deployment to a Kubernetes cluster. By the end of this book, you’ll know how to think like a professional software developer or engineer and write lean and efficient Go code.

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Understand different stages of the software development life cycle and the role of a software engineer

Create APIs using gRPC and leverage the middleware offered by the gRPC ecosystem

Discover various approaches to managing package dependencies for your projects

Build an end-to-end project from scratch and explore different strategies for scaling it

Develop a graph processing system and extend it to run in a distributed manner

Deploy Go services on Kubernetes and monitor their health using Prometheus

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Amazon Customer Oct 03, 2023

The Github repo provided for this book doesn't work. It's using deprecated libraries, running `make` doesn't build the app, and there are no instructions on how to actually get it running. If you can't run the project, then that defeats the whole point of the book.

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Calvin Colton Nov 07, 2022

The first four chapters of this book are just general information pertaining to the software engineering profession, testing, principles, etc, which is somewhat helpful. However once we actually got down to the project, I wasn't sure if the code snippets were actual code we should be writing, or just an overview. I was left with so many questions, i.e.- How should we structure our project directory?- Do we need to import external go packages to make this work?- Why are code snippets incomplete? Should I be writing these incomplete functions? Will we fill it in later?You're left reviewing code in Github, which is organized only by chapter. What should the complete project actually look like? I don't know! Such a disappointment--getting 200 pages in just to realize it's probably not worth it to finish it.The gold standard for implementing a project in Go is definitely Alex Edward's Let's Go and Let's Go Further. I'm not sure why this is so difficult. I want practice building applications/programs from start to finish, and I'm not sure why this is so difficult to do. Tell the reader when to create a file, where it's located, what it looks like. Be explicit and complete. Try running it along the way. Make sure it works.A lot to be improved here. A bit disappointed with Packt.

MT Oct 04, 2021

A great book on creating scalable distributed systems in Go.

dsp Mar 26, 2021

The book teaches you how to decompose and solve problems efficiently using microservices using golang.It showcases both how intelligently the language is designed (how easy it is to import for example a database, for a small part of platform, or a message queue for another) and also how good abstractions allow you to tackle complexity while maintaining proper code form.

Zoltan G. Mar 03, 2021

For me it was an instant 'click'. This book isn't simply about learning a programming language or a specific technology. Sure, if you go through the exercises you'll get to know Go Programming Language more intimately, but it also covers essential knowledge that helps through every stage of system design.It tells a story about how things can be built in a way that suits any given scale of operation. It shows common pitfalls and how to avoid them, and introduces engineering practices that ensure that what you create will work, and will be the right architecture for the requirements of your project. Technologies get obsolete quickly and tools are replaced by others but the content of the book stays relevant being a good guide on how to strike the right balance of simplicity and scaling.The reader will be able to go through the life-cycle of a complex project in a way that's likely applicable to most real-life software engineering project. From a simple 'proof of concept' to a large scale distributed system, most evolutionary steps are covered. The examples are detailed and it's worth spending time understanding the reasons behind each level of the design of the example project in the book.I'd recommend the book for engineers who see themselves in decision-making positions perhaps in a startup, maybe even with their own projects.The language of the book is not the simplest, takes a few pages to get used to the precise definitions.

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