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Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang

You're reading from   Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang Design and architect highly scalable and robust applications using Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622592
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jyotiswarup Raiturkar Jyotiswarup Raiturkar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building Big with Go FREE CHAPTER 2. Packaging Code 3. Design Patterns 4. Scaling Applications 5. Going Distributed 6. Messaging 7. Building APIs 8. Modeling Data 9. Anti-Fragile Systems 10. Case Study – Travel Website 11. Planning for Deployment 12. Migrating Applications 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a team

When contemplating the migration of applications, one key concern for management is availability of talent/developers. Fortunately, Go is a very simple and easy-to-learn language, and if you have good engineers, they will pick it up quickly. The Phase 1 – Learning Go subsection of the Migration strategy section mentions some learning resources. In my experience, people get productive within a week of starting hands-on experiments.

Another good resource is the Go Proverbs list (https://go-proverbs.github.io/). It provides a set of pithy recommendations; some of them, such as "the bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction," are pretty profound.

The flip side is that there is high demand for Go programmers. So once you train them, remember to keep the developers energized and engaged. When interviewing developers for the team, what has worked...

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