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The Go Workshop

You're reading from The Go Workshop Learn to write clean, efficient code and build high-performance applications with Go

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838647940

Length 824 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (6):

Sam Hennessy

Andrew Hayes

Gobin Sougrakpam

Jeremy Leasor

Delio D'Anna

Dániel Szabó

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

About the Book

1. Variables and Operators FREE CHAPTER

2. Logic and Loops

3. Core Types

4. Complex Types

5. Functions

6. Errors

7. Interfaces

8. Packages

9. Basic Debugging

10. About Time

11. Encoding and Decoding (JSON)

12. Files and Systems

13. SQL and Databases

14. Using the Go HTTP Client

15. HTTP Servers

16. Concurrent Work

17. Using Go Tools

18. Security

19. Special Features

Appendix

Database API and Drivers

In order to work with databases, there is something called the "pure" Go approach, which means Go has an API that allows you to use different drivers to connect to databases. The API comes from the database/sql package, and the drivers can be of two types. There is native support for a wide variety of drivers, which can be found on the official GitHub page (https://packt.live/2LMzcC4), and there are third-party drivers that need additional packages to function, such as the SQLlite3 package, which requires you to have GCC installed because it is a pure C implementation.

Note

GCC is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project. It takes your source code and translates it to machine code so that your computer can run the application.

Here is a list of a couple of drivers:

MySQL (https://packt.live/38zk9Fw)
Oracle (https://packt.live/34cxwrP)
ODBC (https://packt.live/2EfETV8)
Postgres (https://packt.live/35jKEwL)

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Authors (6)

Delio D'Anna

Delio D'Anna

Delio D'Anna is an experienced software engineer with a company experience mainly developed working on web applications. Although he has been working mostly under a LAMP stack on the back-end side and with JavaScript on the front end, he is interested in a wide range of languages/technologies and always open to learn/apply what comes new from the IT world. His programming background started with the study of algorithms and artificial intelligence but his working career proceeded in the open source world programming high traffic websites in php/MySQL/Postgres/JavaScript.

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Gobin Sougrakpam

Gobin Sougrakpam

Gobin Sougrakpam started in IT as a Systems Integration Developer for large scale enterprises. His love for automation see him move into a Software Developer role. He currently works as Golang developer, creating automation solutions for Infrastructure platforms like VMware and AWS. Gobin enjoys playing his guitar in his free time.

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Jeremy Leasor

Jeremy Leasor

Jeremy Leasor has over 20 years of IT experience, including 3 years as a security engineer developing Go libraries for attack surface analysis, stig/fisma data imports, and various other utilities,10 years as a lead database administrator (SQL Server) of mission essential system environments, and 8 years as a developer DBA and .NET developer all within the government domain. He enjoys creating various utilities in Go outside of the office hours. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with the family, camping, coaching his kid's soccer team and getting demolished by his kids in Smash Brothers.

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Sam Hennessy

Sam Hennessy

Sam Hennessy started working as a software developer in 2002, switching over to using Go for all his projects in 2015. He's worked at start-ups, agencies, and Fortune 500s. His passion for sharing knowledge leads him to write blogs, books, and present at user groups and conferences. Sam also works as an instructor, teaching Go and other topics. Sam's favorite thing is being at home, watching a good film, with his family and his dog Waffles.

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Andrew Hayes

Andrew Hayes

Andrew Hayes has 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 3 years working with Go. Andrew has worked in a number of areas within the software industry, some which include storage, networking, DevOps, and cloud. He enjoys sharing knowledge by creating tutorials online and speaking at conferences. In his spare time he enjoys camping and fishing.

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Dániel Szabó

Dániel Szabó

Daniel Erno Szabo is a 28-year-old IT geek. He is currently working as a DevOps engineer for an American company in Hungary. His main profile is automation and custom solutions based on different languages covering Windows and Linux. His favorite language is Python, but he is also fluent in Ruby, PowerShell, and C#. He loves learning, teaching, and sharing his knowledge with other people. In his free time, he is a YouTuber and a ferret owner.

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