num_pages: 276
description: Dive headfirst into solving actual enterprise problems and start cutting code from the word go. You will build complete applications around a variety of subjects using a range of different technologies and techniques all of which are directly applicable to today's tech start-up world. Scale performance and high availability lie at the heart of the projects and the lessons learned throughout this book will arm you with everything you need to build world-class solutions. Well-designed applications and sensible architectures can scale horizontally to cope with the demands of up to millions of users while avoiding the prohibitive up-front investment that can bring a project to its knees. Mat Ryer has a family legend (or conspiracy) that tells of him programming computers from the age of 6he and his father would build games and programs first BASIC on a ZX Spectrum then later AmigaBASIC and AMOS on their Commodore Amiga. Many hours were spent manually copying out code from the Amiga Format magazine before spending more still tweaking variables or moving GOTO statements around to see what might happen.The same spirit of exploration and obsession with programming led Mat to start work for a local agency in Mansfield England when he was 18 where he started to build websites and services. After contracting around London for a few years coding everything from C# and Objective-C to Ruby and JavaScript Mat noticed a new systems language called Go that Google was pioneering. Because it addressed very pertinent and relevant modern technical challenges Mat started using it to solve problems while the language was still in beta and he has used it ever since.
language: English
title: Go Programming Blueprints - Solving Development Challenges with Golang
publisher: Packt Publishing