Everything Go

This repository includes all my code while learning the concepts of Golang!

Essential Theory

Some facts about Go

• developed by Google in 2007
• open Sourced in 2009

Why do we need Go? - Go Use cases

• Over the years, infrastructure became:
  • Scalable & Distributed
  • Dynamic
  • More Capacity
• Multi-Threading Use Cases
  • running two or more processes in parallel
• Built-in concurrency mechanism

Essentially, here are is the main use case of Go:

• Building performant applications
• Running on scaled, distributed systems i.e. where there are 100s or 1000s of servers!
• Mostly use with Cloud Development

Characteristics of Go

• Go is an attempt to combine:
  • simple and readable syntax of a language like Python (which is dynamically typed)
  • efficiency and safety of a low-level language like C++ (which is statically typed)
• Mostly used as a server-side or backend language
• Can be used to write:
  • microservices
  • web apps
  • database services
• Few examples of production-grade Go use cases:
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Hashicorp Vault
  • Cockroach DB
• Compiled language - That means this can be compiled into a single binary (machine code) and we can use this same binary file across different OS

Some Advantages

• Simple syntax: easy to learn, read and write code
• Fast build time, start up and run time
• Requires fewer resources
  • Efficient garbage collection (GC)