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Go for Gophers

A practical guide to build fast, testable, and idiomatic Go code through real-world concurrency, modular service patterns, caching, testing, observability.

Go for Gophers is not your regular programming language book, it is a path to build reliable and scalable programs. IT is build on more than 12 years mentoring teams to be productive using Go and building scalable systems. Check the table of contents below.

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Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 – Intro: Gophers, Simplicity, and Composability
  • Chapter 2 – Values, Types, and the Shape of Code
  • Chapter 3 – Interfaces: Composition Over Inheritance
  • Chapter 4 – Idiomatic Patterns: Error Handling and Modularity
  • Chapter 5 – Generics: Type Parameters and Constraints
  • Chapter 6 – Channels, Context, and Cancellation
  • Chapter 7 – WaitGroups and Synchronization Patterns
  • Chapter 8 – Layered Services, Middleware, and Pluggable Backends
  • Chapter 9 – Probabilistic Data Structures in Go
  • Appendix A – Testing, Observability, and Performance
  • Appendix B – Benchmarks, Debugging, and Race Conditions

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