Preface

Hands-On High Performance with Go is a complete resource with proven methodologies and techniques to help you diagnose and fix performance problems in your Go applications. The book starts with an introduction to the concepts of performance, where you will learn about the ideology behind the performance of Go. Next, you will learn how to implement Go data structures and algorithms effectively and explore data manipulation and organization in order to write programs for scalable software. Channels and goroutines for parallelism and concurrency in order to write high-performance codes for distributed systems are also a core part of this book. Moving on, you'll learn how to manage memory effectively. You'll explore the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) driver application programming interface (API), use containers to build Go code, and work with the Go build cache for faster compilation. You'll also get a clear picture of profiling and tracing Go code to detect bottlenecks in your system. At the end of the book, you'll evaluate clusters and job queues for performance optimization and monitor the application for performance regression.