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)