100 GO MISTAKES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them shows you how to replace common programming problems in Go with idiomatic, expressive code. In it, you’ll explore dozens of interesting examples and case studies as you learn to spot mistakes that might appear in your own applications. Expert author Teiva Harsanyi organizes the error avoidance techniques into convenient categories, ranging from types and strings to concurrency and testing.

100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them shows you how to:

• Dodge the most common mistakes made by Go developers
• Structure and organize your Go application
• Handle data and control structures efficiently
• Deal with errors in an idiomatic manner
• Improve your concurrency skills
• Optimize your code
• Make your application production-ready and improve testing quality

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. As you go, you’ll navigate the tricky bits of handling JSON data and HTTP services, discover best practices for Go code organization, and learn how to use slices efficiently.