Matt Butcher

Matt Butcher is an architect at Deis, where contributing to open source projects is his day job. He has written several books and dozens of articles. Matt holds a PhD in philosophy and teaches in the Computer Science department at Loyola University Chicago. Matt is passionate about building strong teams and developing elegant solutions to complex problems.

books by Matt Butcher

Go in Practice, Second Edition

  • February 2025
  • ISBN 9781633436886
  • 376 pages
  • printed in black & white

Go in Practice, Second Edition delivers dozens of practical techniques for writing and maintaining Go applications following a handy problem/solution/discussion format. This up-to-date revision covers the latest Go innovations, including generics, panics and other error handling tools, and modern concurrency patterns, along with advanced features like reflection and code generation. You’ll also love the tips for integrating AI code completion into your development process.

Go in Practice

  • August 2016
  • ISBN 9781633430075
  • 312 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Russian, Simplified Chinese

Go in Practice guides you through dozens of real-world techniques in key areas. Following a cookbook-style Problem/Solution/Discussion format, this practical handbook builds on the foundational concepts of the Go language and introduces specific strategies you can use in your day-to-day applications. You'll learn techniques for building web services, using Go in the cloud, testing and debugging, routing, network applications, and much more. After finishing this book, you will be ready to build sophisticated cloud-native Go applications.