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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Basic Go Data Types 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

A package for working with SQLite

This section will develop a Go package for working with a given database schema stored on an SQLite database, with the end goal of demonstrating how to develop, store, and use a package. When interacting with specific schemas and tables in your application, you usually create separate packages with all the database-related functions—this also applies to NoSQL databases.

Go offers a generic package (https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql) for working with databases. However, each database requires a specific package that acts as the driver and allows Go to connect and work with that specific database.

The steps for creating the desired Go package are as follows:

  • Downloading the necessary external Go packages for working with SQLite.
  • Creating package files.
  • Developing the required functions.
  • Using the Go package for developing utilities and testing its functionality.
  • Using CI/CD tools for automation (this is...
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