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Mastering Go

Mastering Go

By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Mastering Go

Mastering Go

4.8 (27)
By: Mihalis Tsoukalos

Overview of this book

Mastering Go, now in its fourth edition, remains the go-to resource for real-world Go development. This comprehensive guide delves into advanced Go concepts, including RESTful servers, and Go memory management. This edition brings new chapters on Go Generics and fuzzy Testing, and an enriched exploration of efficiency and performance. As you work your way through the chapters, you will gain confidence and a deep understanding of advanced Go topics, including concurrency and the operation of the Garbage Collector, using Go with Docker, writing powerful command-line utilities, working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, and interacting with databases. You will be engaged in real-world exercises, build network servers, and develop robust command-line utilities. With in-depth chapters on RESTful services, the WebSocket protocol, and Go internals, you are going to master Go's nuances, optimization, and observability. You will also elevate your skills in efficiency, performance, and advanced testing. With the help of Mastering Go, you will become an expert Go programmer by building Go systems and implementing advanced Go techniques in your projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Go memory management

The subject of this section is Go memory management. We are going to begin by stating a fact that you should already be familiar with: Go sacrifices visibility and total control over memory management for the sake of simplicity and the use of the Garbage Collector (GC). Although the GC operation introduces an overhead to the speed of a program, it saves us from having to manually deal with memory, which is a huge advantage and saves us from lots of bugs.

There exist two types of allocations that take place during program execution: dynamic allocations and automatic allocations. Automatic allocations are the allocations whose lifespan can be inferred by the compiler before the program starts its execution. For example, all local variables, the return arguments of functions, and function arguments have a given lifespan, which means that they can be automatically allocated by the compiler. All other allocations are performed dynamically, which also includes data...

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