Network Programming with Go Language

Dive into key topics in network architecture implemented with the Google-backed open source Go programming language. Networking topics such as data serialization, application level protocols, character sets and encodings are discussed and demonstrated in Go. This book has been updated to the Go version 1.18 which includes modules, generics, and fuzzing along with updated and additional examples.

Beyond the fundamentals, Network Programming with Go, Second Edition covers key networking and security issues such as HTTP protocol changes, validation and templates, remote procedure call (RPC) and REST comparison, and more. Additionally, authors Ronald Petty and Jan Newmarch guide you in building and connecting to a complete web server based on Go. Along the way, use of a Go web toolkit (Gorilla) will be employed.

This book can serve as both an essential learning guide and reference on networking concepts and implementation in Go. Free source code is available on Github for this book under Creative Commons open source license.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

* Perform network programming with Go (including JSON and RPC)
* Understand Gorilla, the Golang web toolkit, and how to use it
* Implement a microservice architecture with Go
* Leverage Go features such as generics, fuzzing
* Master syscalls and how to employ them with Go

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Anyone interested in learning networking concepts implemented in modern Go. Basic knowledge in Go is assumed, however, the content and examples in this book are approachable with modest development experience in other languages.

JAN NEWMARCH, Ph.d., is Head of Higher Education (ICT), Box Hill Institute, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of IT, Monash University, and Adjunct Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematics Charles Sturt University.

RONALD PETTY is a Principal Consultant at RX-M LLC. His programming expertise is in open source languages like Go, Ruby and more. He currently is working on a number of Go code projects on Github.

1: Architectural Layers

2: Overview of the Go Language

3: Socket-Level Programming

4: Data Serialization

5: Application-Level Protocols

6: Managing Character Sets and Encodings

7: Security

8: HTTP

9: Templates

10: A Complete Web Server

11: HTML

12: XML

13: Remote Procedure Call

14: REST

15: WebSockets

16: Gorilla

17: Testing

Appendix A: Fuzzing

Appendix B: Generics