July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
9h 9m
English
Overview
Go Web Programming teaches you how to build scalable, high-performance web applications in Go using modern design principles.
About the Technology
The Go language handles the demands of scalable, high-performance web applications by providing clean and fast compiled code, garbage collection, a simple concurrency model, and a fantastic standard library. It's perfect for writing microservices or building scalable, maintainable systems.
About the Book
Go Web Programming teaches you how to build web applications in Go using modern design principles. You'll learn how to implement the dependency injection design pattern for writing test doubles, use concurrency in web applications, and create and consume JSON and XML in web services. Along the way, you'll discover how to minimize your dependence on external frameworks, and you'll pick up valuable productivity techniques for testing and deploying your applications.
What's Inside
- Basics
- Testing and benchmarking
- Using concurrency
- Deploying to standalone servers, PaaS, and Docker
- Dozens of tips, tricks, and techniques
About the Reader
This book assumes you're familiar with Go language basics and the general concepts of web development.
About the Author
Sau Sheong Chang is Managing Director of Digital Technology at Singapore Power and an active contributor to the Ruby and Go communities.
Quotes
As the importance of the Go language grows, the need for a great tutorial grows with it. This book fills this need.
- Shaun Lippy, Oracle Corporation
An excellent book, whether you are an experienced gopher, or you know web development but are new to Go.
- Benoit Benedetti, University of Nice
Everything you need to get started writing and deploying web apps in Go.
- Brian Cooksey, Zapier
Definitive how-to guide for web development in Go.
- Gualtiero Testa, Factor-y S.r.l.
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.