Practical Go

Acknowledgments

I want to thank the entire team at Wiley that made this book possible. First, Jim Minatel, who responded to my initial email expressing interest in publishing a book with Wiley. Jim then connected me with Devon Lewis, with whom I discussed the book proposal and who was instrumental in commissioning this book and overseeing the entire process. Next, I would like to thank Gary Schwartz, who in his capacity as project manager guided me throughout the entire project, ensuring that I was on track with my delivery of the chapters. Thank you, Judy Flynn, for your meticulousness in your role as the copyeditor. Finally, thank you, Barath Kumar Rajasekaran, for overseeing the proofreading process. Working with this team of fine folks was my version of a Ulysses pact.

John Arundel was kind enough to accept my request to be the technical reviewer of this book, and his insights and comments greatly helped to make the book better as well as making me a better Go programmer.

I want to thank all the community members on the Golang nuts and gRPC mailing lists who were always helpful in answering my questions and clarifying my doubts. My initial days of learning Go were mostly spent copying and pasting code from the “Go by example” project at https://gobyexample.com; hence I would like to acknowledge the efforts of the creator and maintainers of this project for their super-helpful resource.

Finally, I appreciate the efforts of the folks at Cooperpress who publish Golang Weekly ...