Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Go

Go is a type-safe concurrent language that is easy to develop with while being extremely performant. In this section, we will start by learning the basics of the Go language such as types, variable creation, functions, and other basic language constructs. We will continue teaching essential topics that include concurrency, the context package, testing, and other necessary skills. You will learn how to set up a Go environment for your operating system, interact with the local filesystem, use common data formats, and communicate with remote data sources using methods such as REST and gRPC. Finally, we will dive into automation by writing command-line tools with popular packages that issue commands to local and remote resources.

The following chapters will be covered in this section:

• Chapter 1, Go Language Basics
• Chapter 2, Go Language Essentials
• Chapter 3, Setting Up Your Environment
• Chapter 4, Filesystem Interactions
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