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Cloud Native Programming with Golang
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Cloud Native Programming with Golang

by Mina Andrawos, Martin Helmich
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
9h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Why Go?

Go (or Golang) is a relatively new programming language that is taking the software development world by storm. It was developed by Google to facilitate the construction of its backend software services. However, it's now being used by numerous enterprises and start-ups to write powerful applications. What sets Go apart is the fact that it was built from the ground up to provide performance that is destined to compete with very powerful languages, such as C/C++, while supporting a relatively simple syntax that resembles dynamic languages such as JavaScript. The Go runtime offers garbage collection; however, it does not rely on virtual machines to achieve that. Go programs are compiled into native machine code. When invoking the Go ...

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