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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Create Golang production applications using network libraries, concurrency, machine learning, and advanced data structures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838559335
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Go and the Operating System 2. Understanding Go Internals FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Basic Go Data Types 4. The Uses of Composite Types 5. How to Enhance Go Code with Data Structures 6. What You Might Not Know About Go Packages and Functions 7. Reflection and Interfaces for All Seasons 8. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 9. Concurrency in Go – Goroutines, Channels, and Pipelines 10. Concurrency in Go – Advanced Topics 11. Code Testing, Optimization, and Profiling 12. The Foundations of Network Programming in Go 13. Network Programming – Building Your Own Servers and Clients 14. Machine Learning in Go 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we talked about code testing, code optimization, and code profiling. Near the end of the chapter, you learned how to find unreachable code and how to cross-compile Go code. The go test command is used to test and benchmark Go code, as well as offering extra documentation with the use of example functions.

Although the discussion of the Go profiler and go tool trace is far from complete, you should understand that with topics such as profiling and code tracing, nothing can replace experimenting and trying new techniques on your own!

In the next chapter, Chapter 12, The Foundations of Network Programming in Go, we will start talking about network programming in Go, which involves programming applications that work over TCP/IP computer networks, which includes the Internet. Some of the subjects in the next chapter are the net/http package, creating web...

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