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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837634132

Length 408 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Alex Rios

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Why Go? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Refreshing Concurrency and Parallelism

4. Part 2: Interaction with the OS

5. Chapter 3: Understanding System Calls

6. Chapter 4: File and Directory Operations

7. Chapter 5: Working with System Events

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Pipes in Inter-Process Communication

9. Chapter 7: Unix Sockets

10. Part 3: Performance

11. Chapter 8: Memory Management

12. Chapter 9: Analyzing Performance

13. Part 4: Connected Apps

14. Chapter 10: Networking

15. Chapter 11: Telemetry

16. Chapter 12: Distributing Your Apps

17. Part 5: Going Beyond

18. Chapter 13: Capstone Project – Distributed Cache

19. Chapter 14: Effective Coding Practices

20. Chapter 15: Stay Sharp with System Programming

21. Index

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Appendix : Hardware Automation

Telemetry

In this chapter, we explore the practical world of telemetry, where the elegance of Go’s programming model meets the crucial need for application observability. We are equipping you with the tools of logging, tracing, and metrics to shed light on the inner workings of your Go applications, empowering you to ensure they run efficiently and reliably.

This chapter is your guide to enhancing the art and science of application telemetry. From the comprehensive practice of structured logging, which brings order and clarity to application logs, to the detailed insights offered by tracing and the thorough analysis enabled by metrics, this chapter covers it all.

The chapter will cover the following key topics:

Logs
Traces
Metrics
The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project

By the end of this chapter, you will have acquired the skills to observe, understand, and actively improve the performance and reliability of your apps, fostering a sense of engagement...