Go Books

Authors: Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan

A online book to start learning Golang. It features numerous exercises (and answers).

Get Programming with Go introduces you to the powerful Go language without confusing jargon or high-level theory. By working through 32 quick-fire lessons, you'll quickly pick up the basics of the innovative Go programming language!

With this book you'll learn to use Go, taking advantage of it's multi-threaded nature, and typed syntax. Starting your API implementation in Go is your first step towards what a rock solid API should be.

This book helps Javascripters become Gophers. Outlining the differences between these languages makes it easier to switch back and forth, and can help mitigate potential issues when doing so.

The Go Workshop will take the pain out of learning the Go programming language (also known as Golang). It is designed to teach you to be productive in building real-world software. Presented in an engaging, hands-on way, this book focuses on the features of Go that are used by professionals in their everyday work.

This book is designed to introduce you to writing programs with the Go programming language. You’ll learn how to write useful tools and applications that can run on remote servers, or local Windows, macOS, and Linux systems for development. Available in epub and pdf.

In this book you will learn the following:

Practical Go Lessons has 41 chapters and more than 700 pages with illustrations. It is suitable for anybody how wants to start programming with the Go language. It assumes no prior knowledge. Each chapter contains test questions with detailed answers. The HTML version is free. You can support the author by buying the PDF or Paper version.

Starting from the basics and building up to the most advanced and sophisticated features. You will learn how Go builds on a simple and consistent type system to create a comprehensive and productive development experience that produces fast and robust applications that run across platforms.

Go is the go-to language for DevOps libraries and services, and without it, achieving fast and safe automation is a challenge. With the help of Go for DevOps, you'll learn how to deliver services with ease and safety, becoming a better DevOps engineer in the process.

Learn Go guided by tests. Write a test, learn a new Go language feature to make it pass, refactor and repeat. You'll get a grounding in test-driven development and importantly understand the principles behind it.

Go 101 is a book focusing on Go syntax/semantics and all kinds of runtime related things (Go 1.17-pre ready) and tries to help gophers gain a deep and thorough understanding of Go. This book also collects many details of Go and in Go programming. It is expected that this book is helpful for both beginner and experienced Go programmers.

The first Persian open source book about golang deep dive. In this book, we discuss all deep topics related to the Go language, from the basics to the advanced, with the aim of increasing the Gopher community in Iran.

In recent years, Microservice architecture has been gaining popularity. With that rise, comes a different set of requirements than we had previously. The most important one is efficient communication between the different services. That's where gRPC comes in. So naturally, this book will show you how to create gRPC servers and clients in an efficient, secure, and scalable way. But, on top of that, because Microservices are not only about communication, this book intends to show you how to deplo…

Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects teaches you to write professional-level Go code by creating handy tools and fun apps. Each small, self-contained project introduces important practical skills, including ensuring that your code is thoroughly tested and documented! You’ll make architectural decisions for your projects and organize your code in a maintainable way. Everything you learn is easy to scale-up to full-size Go applications.

Some say Go is a simple language and with only 25 keywords it surely is. But, to work with Go effectively requires proficiency and understanding beyond simple syntax alone. It can take developers months or even years to acquire this experience, but this book sets out to short-circuit that process and get you there faster!

You know how to build Go programs—now learn how to ship them to your customers efficiently! This practical guide to continuous delivery shows you how to rapidly establish an automated pipeline that will improve your testing, code quality, and final product.

For the last decade, we have heard stories about Monolith to Microservice transitions and we might think that this transition solves the majority of the problems in the organizations. However, it might end up with mess if you are not aware about best practices of this transition, since Microservice Architecture comes with its challenges. In this book, we start covering production grade best practices of Microservices Architecture and explain when to use it. Then we talk about microservice commu…

Go has rapidly become the preferred language for building web services. Plenty of tutorials are available to teach Go's syntax to developers with experience in other programming languages, but tutorials aren't enough. They don't teach Go's idioms, so developers end up recreating patterns that don't make sense in a Go context. This practical guide provides the essential background you need to write clear and idiomatic Go.

Go Programming – From Beginner to Professional is a comprehensive guide that takes your proficiency in the Go programming language from novice to expert. Starting with fundamental concepts, this book covers variables, command-line tools, and working with data before delving into advanced concepts, including error handling, interfaces, and generics, harnessing Go’s latest features through hands-on exercises. Along the way, you’ll learn to structure projects using Go modules, manage packages effe…

Introduces the Go programming language for complete beginners, as well as those with experience programming in other languages.

Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go takes you on a journey, teaching you about refactoring existing code to adopt dependency injection (DI) using various methods available in Go.

Security with Go is the first Golang security book, and it is useful for both blue team and red team applications. With this book, you will learn how to write secure software, monitor your systems, secure your data, attack systems, and extract information.

A developer's experience in golang.

In this book we will create a programming language together.

This is the sequel to Writing An Interpreter In Go.

This Golang book distills industry best practices for writing lean Go code that is easy to test and maintain, and helps you to explore its practical implementation by creating a multi-tier application called Links ‘R’ Us from scratch. You’ll be guided through all the steps involved in designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and scaling an application. Starting with a monolithic architecture, you’ll iteratively transform the project into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that supports t…

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework used to build web applications and microservices in Go. This book is designed to teach you the ins and outs of the Gin framework with the help of practical examples.

Network Programming with Go will help you leverage Go to write secure, readable, production-ready network code. Network Programming with Go is all you'll need to take advantage of Go's built-in concurrency, rapid compiling, and rich standard library.

Write your own fast, reliable, and cross-platform command-line tools with the Go programming language. Go might be the fastest—and perhaps the most fun—way to automate tasks, analyze data, parse logs, talk to network services, or address other systems requirements. Create all kinds of command-line tools that work with files, connect to services, and manage external processes, all while using tests and benchmarks to ensure your programs are fast and correct.

Go by Example is a practical guide to writing high-quality code that’s easy to test and maintain. The book is full of best practices to adopt and anti-patterns to dodge. It explores what makes Go so dramatically different from other languages, and how you can still leverage your existing skills into writing excellent Go code. Aimed at Go beginners looking to graduate to serious Go development, you’ll write and test command line applications, web API clients and servers, concurrent programs, and…

What do Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus have in common? All of these cloud native technologies are written in the Go programming language. This practical book shows you how to use Go's strengths to develop cloud native services that are scalable and resilient, even in an unpredictable environment. You'll explore the composition and construction of these applications, from lower-level features of Go to mid-level design patterns to high-level architectural considerations.

This book is a compilation of practical examples, lessons and techniques for Go developers. The topics cover the software lifecycle from learning the fundamentals, to software testing, to distribution and monitoring.

In Practical Go - Building Scalable Network + Non-Network Applications, you will learn to use the Go programming language to build robust, production-ready software applications. You will learn just enough to building command line tools and applications communicating over HTTP and gRPC.

This book covers the key benefits and common issues of microservices, helping you understand the problems microservice architecture helps to solve, the issues it usually introduces, and the ways to tackle them.

Event-driven architecture in Golang is an approach used to develop applications that shares state changes asynchronously, internally, and externally using messages. EDA applications are better suited at handling situations that need to scale up quickly and the chances of individual component failures are less likely to bring your system crashing down. This is why EDA is a great thing to learn and this book is designed to get you started with the help of step-by-step explanations of essential co…

Software engineers today typically put performance optimizations low on the list of development priorities. But despite significant technological advancements and lower-priced hardware, software efficiency still matters. With this book, Go programmers will learn how to approach performance topics for applications written in this open source language.

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them puts a spotlight on common errors in Go code you might not even know you’re making. You’ll explore key areas of the language such as concurrency, testing, data structures, and more—and learn how to avoid and fix mistakes in your own projects.

Go's 2022 introduction of generics opens up a whole new world of programming in Go. This book explains everything you need to know to start writing generic functions and types, including type parameters, constraints, and the accompanying changes to the standard library. It also offers some advice on how (and whether) you should transition your existing projects to using the new generics features.

Go’s built-in support for testing puts tests front and centre of any software project, from command-line tools to sophisticated backend servers and APIs. This book will introduce you to all Go’s testing facilities, show you how to use them to write tests for the trickiest things, and distils the collected wisdom of the Go community on best practices for testing Go programs. Crammed with hundreds of code examples, the book uses real tests and real problems to show you exactly what to do, step by…

Are you an experienced Go developer that wants to be more productive? Do you want to write cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain code? Then the Beyond Effective Go book series is for you. This series is aimed at competent Gophers. It does not mess around with the basics but instead dives right into the daily problems that professional programmers face. Chiefly, how to write fast, robust applications and services that can be maintained and extended as requirements change.

Use Golang to create simple, maintainable systems to solve complex business problems.

The main goal of this book is to help developers avoid common mistakes while at the same time, learning a new programming language through a "hands-on approach". This book provides a good level of detail on "how to do it securely" showing what kind of security problems could arise during development.

Go’s built-in first-class concurrency mechanisms make it an ideal choice for long-lived low-bandwidth I/O operations, which are typical requirements of network automation and network operations applications. This book provides a quick overview of Go and hands-on examples within it to help you become proficient with Go for network automation. It’s a practical guide that will teach you how to automate common network operations and build systems using Go. The first part takes you through a general…

Go is a popular choice for writing DevOps and systems programs, and command-line tools in particular. How can we write simple, powerful, idiomatic, and even beautiful tools in Go? This book covers all the necessary techniques: functional options, flags and arguments, files and filesystems, executing commands, writing shells and pipelines, JSON and YAML wrangling, and even sophisticated API clients.

Understand Kubernetes and other orchestration systems deeply by building your own using Go and the Docker API.

Much of the modern world is built on cryptography, and this book introduces readers to the fundamental principles of ciphers, keys, and hashing. It traces the development of increasingly sophisticated cryptographic schemes from the Caesar cipher to SHA-256 and AES-GCM, including dozens of example Go programs and coding challenges. The book concludes with a review of best practices for handling encryption and authentication in Go applications.

A foundational and practical guide for effectively learning the fundamental blockchain concepts and progressively building a blockchain from scratch in Go with gRPC. An interesting and challenging adventure that takes you from the foundational concepts and purpose through the technical design and implementation to the practical testing and usage of the proposed blockchain. Simple, yet non-trivial. Concise, yet detailed. Practical, yet well-grounded.

Go at Scale is your comprehensive guide to writing scalable, maintainable, and efficient Go code. Moving beyond the basics, this book dives deep into advanced patterns and practices used in real-world applications.

Go with the Domain is a book on building Go applications that solve complex problems in an idiomatic way. It features techniques like Domain-Driven Design, Clean Architecture, CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), and other patterns.

Spaceship Go is a journey to Go's Standard Library. Several key packages are explored in order to understand why they are useful, and also how they are implemented under the hood. It serves as a reference of some key available tools and primitives offered by the language, which can be very helpful to write performant and idiomatic code.

The Ultimate Go Notebook is the official companion book for the Ardan Labs Ultimate Go class.

The book begins with an introduction to Go data structures and algorithms. You'll learn how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. Moving ahead, you'll discover how to implement sorting and searching algorithms, followed by binary search trees. This book will also help you improve the performance of your applications by stringing data types and implementing hash structures in algorithm design. Finally, you'll be able to apply traditional data structures to solve real-worl…

A book filled with examples on how to use Docker and Go to create the ultimate 12 Factor applications. It goes over individual steps of The Twelve-Factor App guidelines and how to implement them with Go and Docker.

This book was written to teach how to develop web applications in Go for people who know a bit of Go and have basic information about web applications in general. We (you) will build a webapp without using a third party framework and using as few external libraries as possible. The advantage is that you'll learn a lot when you code without a framework.

Together, we'll build a strong, API-first, reusable codebase suitable for building a SaaS or vanilla web application. By the end of the book you'll have a solid framework to use as the starting point for future projects.

The Go programming language is a simple one, but like all other languages it has its quirks. This book uses these quirks as a teaching opportunity. By understanding the gaps in your knowledge - you'll become better at what you do.

While often considered a fast and compact programming language, Go usually creates large executables that are difficult to run on low-memory or low-powered devices such as microcontrollers or IoT. TinyGo is a new compiler that allows developers to compile their programs for such low-powered devices. As TinyGo supports all the standard features of the Go programming language, you won't have to tweak the code to fit on the microcontroller.

Take your Go skills to the next level by learning how to design, develop, and deploy a distributed service. Start from the bare essentials of storage handling, work your way through networking a client and server, turn that single-node application into a distributed system with service discovery and consensus, and then deploy your service to the cloud. All this will make coding in your day job or side projects easier, faster, and more fun.

The Go ecosystem is helping developers to build distributed and scalable systems efficiently. If you plan to jump into this fascinating world, you must know how Go can help you to build REST APIs, use SQL/NoSQL databases, data streaming platforms, gRPC, design your own CLIs, or how to log your programs efficiently just to mention a few. Build Systems with GO: Everything a Gopher Must Know is split into two blocks: the first explores the Go language and its standard library, the second one pro…

Let's Go teaches you step-by-step how to create fast, secure and maintainable web applications using Go. It guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real-world application — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies, authenticate and authorize users, secure your server and test your application.

Let’s Go Further helps you extend and expand your knowledge of Go — taking you beyond the basics and guiding you through advanced patterns for developing, managing and deploying APIs and web applications. By the end of the book you'll have all the knowledge you need to create robust and professional APIs which act as backends for SPAs and native mobile applications, or function as stand-alone services.

This is the 4rd edition of Mastering Go. There exist many exciting new topics in this latest edition including writing RESTful services, working with the Websocket protocol, using GitHub Actions and GitLab Actions for Go projects as well as an entirely new chapter on Generics and the development of lots of practical utilities.

Web Development with Go was written to teach both beginners and experts how to create and deploy a real web application. You won't be building a boilerplate TODO list, but will instead be creating and deploying a production ready photo gallery application, similar to Pixieset, from scratch. The book assumes no previous web development experience and covers everything you need to know to successfully build your own web application.

You will learn how to generate WebAssembly applications with GoLang and run WebAssembly in your browser and out of your browser.

Generative art is a unique form of artistic expression, building bridges between computer programming, randomness, and visual aesthetics.

A good resource for start Building Web Apps with Go.

Another awesome book for learning Web Development in Golang.

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