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Network programming with Go
An e-book on building network applications using the Google Go programming language (golang)
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First published January 1, 2012
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June 25, 2017
Don't expect anything fancy, or you'll be very disappointing. No Paxos or Raft implementations :), no service discoveries, no distributed orchestrations, just basic stuff - simple networking, basic serialization (by 'basic' I mean really basic, Protobuf has got almost no attention), character encoding, HTTP (yikes), HTML (yikes x 2), REST (yikes x 3). The only thing that's slightly more interesting is WebSockets.
There are plenty of examples & the good thing about them is that they are complete (not just excerpts cut out of context), but that means the obvious drawback - they are too 'chatty' & take a lot of space: in fact the book is much shorter than it appears to.
Book starts with a tiny primer on Go (as a language) - frankly it's VERY short, but totally sufficient - code used within the book is extremely simple even for Go standards (I don't think goroutines are used at all, there's not much about idiomatic Go either).
To summarize: if you're very junior or just starting with either Go or web programming (this book really isn't about general network programming), than you can pick this one, but wait for the discount (this is how I got my copy), otherwise move along, there's nothing interesting for you here.
There are plenty of examples & the good thing about them is that they are complete (not just excerpts cut out of context), but that means the obvious drawback - they are too 'chatty' & take a lot of space: in fact the book is much shorter than it appears to.
Book starts with a tiny primer on Go (as a language) - frankly it's VERY short, but totally sufficient - code used within the book is extremely simple even for Go standards (I don't think goroutines are used at all, there's not much about idiomatic Go either).
To summarize: if you're very junior or just starting with either Go or web programming (this book really isn't about general network programming), than you can pick this one, but wait for the discount (this is how I got my copy), otherwise move along, there's nothing interesting for you here.
January 29, 2018
Just an implementation for networking programming concept with Go standard library. It gave a clear view about foundation things of TCP/IP and other related components of distributed system. Nothing more to expect.
January 4, 2019
I like parts about encoding and rpc.
May 17, 2015
I'm a network engineer and I do understand packets but handling network traffic with Go was a little bit daunting as a beginning Go programmer. 'Network Programming with Go' has helped me enormously. Jan Newmarch can sell books like this in the future, which I'd recommend.
A great read!
A great read!
January 13, 2013
Ok to quickly get understanding about Go's network programming...
December 28, 2013
Good introduction. Helpful examples
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