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Go in Action, Second Edition has been substantially rewritten for modern Go, fully updated with the language, tooling, and development practices Go programmers use today.
- Completely updated for modern Go, with examples requiring Go 1.25 or later
- An entirely new chapter on generics, including type parameters, constraints, generic functions and data structures
- Error handling, including sentinel errors, custom error types, and error wrapping
- Testing workflows including unit testing, TDD, benchmarking, profiling, and Go’s built-in fuzz testing.
- Updated concurrency coverage built around a practical concurrent RSS reader
- Modern structured logging with
log/slogalongside Go’s standard library - Go modules and workspaces, replacing the GOPATH-era dependency-management material from the first edition and showing how to organize larger, multimodule Go projects
- New production-oriented architecture examples, including interfaces, dependency inversion, domain-driven design, and hexagonal architecture
- Two brand-new AI-focused appendices covering LLM-powered summarization and retrieval-augmented generation
- New and rewritten examples throughout designed around real applications
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Professional developers proficient in at least one object-oriented language who want to build high-performance backend systems, cloud native applications, or AI-integrated pipelines.Bridge the gap between the syntax and actually building a Go app.
A foundational guide designed to spark interest in the language and in-depth understanding of its concepts.
A perfect on-ramp for experienced developers making the transition to go.
A fantastically thorough and detailed guide to Go while also being clear and friendly for all levels.
Doesn’t just explain the concepts of Go but also why Go was created and what it solves.
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