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Go Cookbook

You're reading from   Go Cookbook Build modular, readable, and testable applications in Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783286836
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. I/O and File Systems FREE CHAPTER 2. Command-Line Tools 3. Data Conversion and Composition 4. Error Handling in Go 5. All about Databases and Storage 6. Web Clients and APIs 7. Microservices for Applications in Go 8. Testing 9. Parallelism and Concurrency 10. Distributed Systems 11. Reactive Programming and Data Streams 12. Serverless Programming 13. Performance Improvements, Tips, and Tricks

Using NoSQL with MongoDB and mgo

You might first think that Go is better suited to relational databases due to Go structs and because Go is a typed language. When working with something like the mgo package, Go can nearly arbitrarily store and retrieve struct objects. If you version your objects, your schema can adapt and it can provide a very flexible development environment.

Some libraries do a better job of hiding or elevating these abstractions. The mgo package is an excellent example of a library that does an excellent job of the former. This recipe will create a connection in a similar way to Redis and MySQL, but will store and retrieve an object without even defining a concrete schema.

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Configure your environment...

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