Hi all, I wanted to share that my latest book is on Go programming and it is now out electronically as well as in print. It is titled "Practical Go: Building Scalable Network and Non-Network Applications" (https://practicalgobook.net/) and published by Wiley publications.
The book targets readers who have learned the language basics - syntax, understanding of types, being able to write functions (details are available in the "Getting started" chapter - but essentially, just a passing familiarity with the language is enough I think). With that assumption: In Getting Started, I guide you through the installation of the software required for the book. I also discuss some of the assumed knowledge for the following chapters. In Chapters 1 and 2, I show you how to write command line applications using the standard library’s flag package. In Chapters 3 and 4, I show you how you can write robust HTTP clients, using the standard library’s net/http package and friends. In Chapters 5, 6 and 7, I show you how you can build production ready HTTP servers using net/http and related packages from the standard library. In Chapters 8, 9 and 10, I show you can build production ready gRPC applications using the Go gRPC implementation. In Chapter 11, I show you can work with two categories of data stores - Object store and a SQL data store using the https://gocloud.dev library. In Appendix A, you will learn to implement instrumentation in applications to emit telemetry data - Logs, Metrics, and Traces. In Appendix B, you will learn to read configuration data in your application, learn to build a container image for your application and get some guidance around deploying your applications. I wrote this book, not to share with you things I already knew - far from it. The book is essentially a documentation of my journey of learning Go and applying it to solve problems which I think based on my experience are being solved by folks in the industry today. On that note, you may find bugs/inconsistencies and so if you read the book, please let me know and/or leave a review. You can find a detailed table of contents here: https://practicalgobook.net/toc/ along with a link to an excerpt of Chapter 1. Any further questions, let me know, i will be happy to answer! I wanted to thank all the members of this list who helped me understand and figure out problems when I found myself stuck when writing the book. Thanks, Amit. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CANODV3nmDyf5CiQWoCrfEp1BFio%2BJHC%3DqjLdZ21842kBpN_opA%40mail.gmail.com.
