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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

Two handy UNIX utilities

There are times when a UNIX program fails for some unknown reason or does not perform well and you want to find out why without having to rewrite your code and add a plethora of debugging statements.

This section will present two command-line utilities that allow you to see the C system calls executed by an executable file. The names of the two tools are strace(1) and dtrace(1) and they allow you to inspect the operation of a program.

Please remember that at the end of the day, all programs that work on UNIX machines end up using C system calls to communicate with the UNIX kernel and perform most of their tasks.

Although both tools can work with the go run command, you will get less unrelated output if you first create an executable file using go build and use this file. This mainly occurs because, as you already know, go run makes various temporary files...

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Mastering Go - Second Edition
Published in: Aug 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781838559335
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