Master key features of Go, including advanced concepts like concurrency and working with JSON, to create and optimize real-world services, network servers, and clients

Key Features:Third edition of the bestselling guide to advanced Go programming, expanded to cover RESTful servers, the WebSocket protocol, and Go generics
Use real-world exercises to build high-performance network servers and powerful command line utilities
Packed with practical examples and utilities to apply to your own development work and administrative tasks
Clearly explains Go nuances and features to simplify Go development

Book Description:
Go is the language of the future for high-performance systems due to its simplicity and clear principles. Mastering Go shows you how to put Go to work on real production systems. This new edition has been updated to include topics like creating RESTful servers and clients, understanding Go generics, and developing gRPC servers and clients.

Mastering Go, Third Edition explores the capabilities of Go in practice. You will become confident with advanced concepts, including concurrency and the operation of the Go Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You will also improve your understanding of Go internals to optimize Go code and use data types and data structures in new and unexpected ways.

This Go programming book also covers the nuances and idioms of Go with exercises and resources to fully embed your newly acquired knowledge. Become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.

What You Will Learn:Use Go in production
Write reliable, high-performance concurrent code
Manipulate data structures including slices, arrays, maps, and pointers
Develop reusable packages with reflection and interfaces
Become familiar with generics for effective Go programming
Create concurrent RESTful servers, and build gRPC clients and servers
Define Go structures for working with JSON data

Who this book is for:
This book is for Go programmers with previous coding experience, who are familiar with the basics of the language and want to become expert Go practitioners.