Hands-On High Performance with Go

Large-scale distributed systems

Go is often used in large-scale distributed systems due to its operational simplicity and its built-in network primitives in the standard library. Being able to rapidly iterate whilst developing is an essential part of building a robust, scalable system. High network latency is often an issue in distributed systems, and the Go team has worked to try and alleviate this concern on their platform. From standard library network implementations to making gRPC a first-class citizen for passing buffered messaging between clients and servers on a distributed platform, the Go language developers have put distributed systems problems at the forefront of the problem space for their language and have come up with some ...