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Go Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach provides an invaluable reference to using the Go programming language, showing idiomatic and best practice code for solving common problems encountered by developers in all industries.What you'll learn• Core fundamentals of Go programming language.• How to persist data into relational databases and into NoSQL databases.• How to build scalable backend APIs in Go.• How to build and deploy Go web applications into multiple Cloud platforms.• Building Microservices in the container era.

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About the Author

Shiju Varghese is a solutions architect who specializes in cloud computing solutions and distributed web apps. His current technology focus is on Go, Google Cloud, Azure, and Docker. He has been working with Web technologies since early 2000, and has developed web apps and distributed systems in Go, C#, and Node.js. His areas of interest include cloud solutions architecture, application containers, distributed systems, RESTful microservice architecture, and mobile backend as a service. Shiju has been awarded Microsoft MVP status five times. He is a regular speaker at various technology conferences.

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Solve your Go problems using a problem-solution approach. Each recipe is a self-contained answer to a practical programming problem in Go. Go Recipes contains recipes that deal with the fundamentals of Go, allowing you to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Other topics include working with data using modern NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and RethinkDB. The book provides in-depth guidance for building highly scalable backend APIs in Go for your mobile client applications and web client applications. All this means that you’ll be able to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, using Go’s novel type system that enables flexible and modular program construction. You'll see how to test your Go applications so they are ready for deployment, as well as learning how to write HTTP servers to offer you maximum flexibility when dealing with remote clients.

What You'll Learn

Work with the core fundamentals of GoPersist data into NoSQL databasesBuild scalable backend APIsTest your Go applicationsCreate HTTP web servers in Go

Who This Book Is For

Experienced programmers who have some or no prior experience with Go.