Go Programming Blueprints: Build real-world, production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques, 2nd Edition

All of my books on Go are good to great, this one is great, precise concise and clear language denotes, I think, a superior grasp of the topic - which lets face it, is, for most of us, abstract. This book is packed (no pun intended) with insight. Thank you Mat, appreciate the care given.... Seems that Go libraries are progressing rapidly and best practice today is different to what it was a year or two back. This book appears to be a little more up to date than my others. Thanks again.

Advantages: This book is grate at presenting a broad picture on web development / web services. I found first 4 chapters valuable. Disadvantageous: I found myself skimming over chapters >= 6. I found my self copy pasting the existing solutions without really thinking what I am doing.

This book was just the tonic I needed in my Go journey. You've learned the language, you've started to solve problems, but you are not quite sure which way to skin that cat. This book is the logical step in that journey. I'm only 30% through and I already have plenty of ideas how to refactor what I've done and how to be more productive in some projects I'm starting imminently.

I loved the way the book is written - very practical, hands-on guides and tutorials, which covers necessary theory without bloating the content with boring stuff. The projects that are covered are fun and practical. I can honestly recommend it for everyone thinking about getting in Go programming.

I love the book because it covers every single nuance of go development while offering 100% of the code you need to build programs. It even comes with access to a githuhb library with 100% of the source code. Would highly recommend to software engineers looking to make Go their career but don't know where to start.

Decent intro to Go, but wanders too frequently off topic digressions into software engineering basics principles for an experienced engineer looking to quickly spin up on a new language.

I was hopeful for the book, but it's not useful for a new golang student. The first chapter was ok, but then it go into things like websockets, google compute engine, etc, without ever covering the basics like standard database access, and the like. To bad...

Messy Chat code and some explanation around it. Not properly ordered. Just makes it look like GO is kind of a complicated language.

This book does is more like a recipes book for various use cases. It says its for "Beginners and above" but, you have to be an extremely well versed Gopher to understand this. It does very little to explain concepts and more explaining logic around the code. Avoid this book if you are a Beginner or Intermediate.