Go Recipes for Developers

Practical techniques for building robust and modern Go applications

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Burak Serdar

Paid access

|Mar 2025

E-Book €25.99Institutions €123.95

Description

Master essential Go programming techniques step by step with expert-led recipes and ready-to-use solutions for common challenges

Key Features

Discover easy-to-implement recipes for all types of programming projects
Learn idiomatic solutions to common problems
Gain comprehensive knowledge of core Go concepts
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

With its simple syntax and sensible conventions, Go has emerged as the language of choice for developers in network programming, web services, data processing, and other settings. This practical guide helps engineers leverage Go through up-to-date recipes that solve common problems in day-to-day programming. Drawing from three decades of distributed systems engineering and technical leadership at companies like Red Hat, Burak Serdar brings battle-tested expertise in building robust, scalable applications.
He starts by covering basics of code structure, describing different approaches to organizing packages for different types of projects. You’ll discover practical solutions to engineering challenges in network programming, dealing with processes, databases, data processing pipelines, and testing. Each chapter provides working solutions and production-ready code snippets that you can seamlessly incorporate into your programs while working in sequential and concurrent settings. The solutions leverage the more recent additions to the Go language, such as generics and structured logging. Most of the examples are developed using the Go standard library without any third-party packages.
By the end of this book, you’ll have worked through a collection of proven recipes that will equip you accelerate your Go development journey.

What you will learn

Understand how to structure projects
Find out how to process text with Go tools
Discover how to work with arrays, slices, and maps
Implement robust error handling patterns
Explore concurrent data processing for Go programs
Get up to speed with how to control processes
Integrate Go applications with databases
Understand how to test, benchmark, and profile Go programs

Who this book is for

This book is for any developer with a basic understanding of the Go language. If you’re a senior developer, you can use it as a reference for finding useful examples they can apply to different use cases.