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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Programs in Go 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

Network Programming

In the previous chapter, we talked about developing web applications, talking to databases, and dealing with JSON data in Go.

The topic of this chapter is the development of Go applications that work over TCP/IP networks. In addition, you will learn how to create TCP and UDP clients and servers. The central Go package of this chapter will be the net package: most of its functions are quite low level and require a good knowledge of TCP/IP and its family of protocols.

However, have in mind that network programming is a huge theme that cannot be covered in a single chapter. This chapter will give you the foundational directions for how to create TCP/IP applications in Go.

More analytically, this chapter will talk about the following topics:

  • How TCP/IP operates
  • The net Go standard package
  • Developing TCP clients and servers
  • Programing UDP clients and servers
  • Developing...
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