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Go for the Real World: Practical Golang for Scalable APIs, Services, and Tools
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 19 2025
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Build Scalable, Fast, and Reliable Systems with Go-Built for Real-World Developers
Ready to move beyond basic tutorials and start building real-world applications?
Go for the Real World takes you beyond the syntax and into practical, production-level development with Golang.
Whether you're building APIs, microservices, CLI tools, or backend systems, this book equips you with hands-on techniques and professional patterns to write clean, efficient, and scalable code using Go.
What You'll Learn:Core Go concepts and idioms for building production-ready code
Building scalable RESTful APIs with Go's powerful net/http package
Structuring your Go projects for real-world deployment
Handling concurrency with goroutines and channels
Using Go for command-line interfaces and system tools
Dependency management and testing in Go
Connecting to databases and managing data efficiently
Security best practices for Go-based applications
Building and deploying Go services in the cloud
Written for developers who want more than Hello, World, this book gives you the skills to tackle real engineering problems using one of the most efficient languages available today.
Start building serious software with Go-the language trusted by Google, Docker, and Kubernetes.
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