Network Programming with Go: Code Secure and Reliable Network Services from Scratch

by Adam Woodbeck

Overview

Network Programming with Go teaches you how to write clean, secure network software with the programming language designed to make it seem easy.

Build simple, reliable, network software
 
Combining the best parts of many other programming languages, Go is fast, scalable, and designed for high-performance networking and multiprocessing. In other words, it’s perfect for network programming.
 
Network Programming with Go will help you leverage Go to write secure, readable, production-ready network code. In the early chapters, you’ll learn the basics of networking and traffic routing. Then you’ll put that knowledge to use as the book guides you through writing programs that communicate using TCP, UDP, and Unix sockets to ensure reliable data transmission.
 
As you progress, you’ll explore higher-level network protocols like HTTP and HTTP/2 and build applications that securely interact with servers, clients, and APIs over a network using TLS.
 
You'll also learn:

Internet Protocol basics, such as the structure of IPv4 and IPv6, multicasting, DNS, and network address translation

Methods of ensuring reliability in socket-level communications

Ways to use handlers, middleware, and multiplexers to build capable HTTP applications with minimal code

Tools for incorporating authentication and encryption into your applications using TLS

Methods to serialize data for storage or transmission in Go-friendly formats like JSON, Gob, XML, and protocol buffers

Ways of instrumenting your code to provide metrics about requests, errors, and more

Approaches for setting up your application to run in the cloud (and reasons why you might want to)

 
Network Programming with Go is all you’ll need to take advantage of Go’s built-in concurrency, rapid compiling, and rich standard library.
 
Covers Go 1.15 (Backward compatible with Go 1.12 and higher)
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781718500891
Publisher:	No Starch Press
Publication date:	03/30/2021
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Adam Woodbeck is a Senior Software Engineer at Barracuda Networks where he has implemented a distributed cloud environment in Go to supplant the previous cloud infrastructure, profoundly increasing its scalability and performance. Before his career in software engineering, Woodbeck spent time in the world of biomechanics and neurology, caring for patients as a chiropractor for nearly a decade. Adam relishes the opportunity to take a deep dive into interesting topics and distill that information into a digestible format for the benefit others.

Table of Contents

Part One: Network Architecture
Chapter 1: An Overview of Networked Systems
Chapter 2: Domain Name Resolution and Routing

Part Two: Socket-Level Programming
Chapter 3: Creating Reliable Data Streams with TCP
Chapter 4: Transmitting Data with TCP
Chapter 5: Simple and Unreliable UDP
Chapter 6: Ensuring UDP’s Reliability with TFTP
Chapter 7: UNIX Domain Sockets

Part Three: Application-Level Programming
Chapter 8: Writing HTTP Clients
Chapter 9: Writing HTTP Services
Chapter 10: Creating a Custom HTTP/2 Server
Chapter 11: Securely Traversing Untrusted Networks

Part Four: Service Architecture and the Cloud
Chapter 12: Microservices and Data Serialization
Chapter 13: Structured Logging and Metrics
Chapter 14: Moving to the Cloud