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Go Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Go Programming Cookbook Over 85 recipes to build modular, readable, and testable Golang applications across various domains

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789800982
Length 434 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. I/O and Filesystems FREE CHAPTER 2. Command-Line Tools 3. Data Conversion and Composition 4. Error Handling in Go 5. Network Programming 6. All about Databases and Storage 7. Web Clients and APIs 8. Microservices for Applications in Go 9. Testing Go Code 10. Parallelism and Concurrency 11. Distributed Systems 12. Reactive Programming and Data Streams 13. Serverless Programming 14. Performance Improvements, Tips, and Tricks 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating storage interfaces for data portability

When working with external storage interfaces, it can be helpful to abstract your operations behind an interface. This is for ease of mocking, portability in the event you change storage backends, and isolation of concerns. The downside to this approach may come if you need to perform multiple operations inside a transaction. In that case, it makes sense to make composite operations, or to allow them to be passed in via a context object or additional function arguments.

This recipe will implement a very simple interface for working with items in MongoDB. These items will have a name and price and we'll use an interface to persist and retrieve these objects.

Getting ready

Refer to the steps given in the Getting ready section in the Using NoSQL with MongoDB recipe.

How to do it...

These steps cover writing and running your application:

  1. From your Terminal or console application...
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