Production Go

Introduction

Installing Go

1. Installation
2. Writing Code
3. Editor Integrations
4. (Optional) Linters and Correctness Tooling

Basics

1. Program Structure
2. Variables and Constants
3. Basic Data Types
4. Structs
5. Operators
6. Conditional Statements
7. Arrays
8. Slices
9. Maps
10. Loops
11. Functions
12. Exported Names
13. Pointers
14. Goroutines
15. Channels
16. Interfaces
17. Error Handling
18. Reading Input
19. Writing Output

Style and Error Handling

1. Style
2. Error Handling
3. Wrapping Up

Strings

1. Appending to Strings
2. Splitting strings
3. Counting and finding substrings
4. Advanced string functions
5. Ranging over a string

Supporting Unicode

1. A very brief history of string encodings
2. Strings are byte slices
3. Printing strings
4. Runes and safely ranging over strings
5. Text Normalization
6. Summary

Concurrency

1. sync.WaitGroup
2. errgroup
3. Channels
4. Goroutines in web handlers
5. Pollers
6. Race conditions

Testing

1. Why do we need tests?
2. Writing Tests
3. Testing HTTP Handlers
4. Mocking
5. Generating Coverage Reports
6. Writing Examples

Benchmarks

1. A simple benchmark
2. Comparing benchmarks
3. Resetting benchmark timers
4. Benchmarking memory allocations
5. Modulo vs Bitwise-and

Tooling

1. Godoc
2. Go Guru
3. Race Detector
4. Go Report Card
5. Staticcheck
6. Go-fuzz
7. govalidate
8. Pinning tools with Go modules

Security

1. Keep Go Up to Date
2. CSRF
3. HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
4. Content Security Policy (CSP)
5. SQL Injection
6. See Also

Going into Production

1. Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
2. Deployment
3. Logging
4. Monitoring
5. Alerting

Further Reading

Acknowledgements

1. Licenses