Alex Guerrieri - Hands-On System Programming with Go

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Alex Guerrieri is a software developer who specializes in backend and distributed systems. Go has been his favorite tool for the job since first using it in 2013. He holds a degree in computer science engineering and has been working in the field for more than 6 years. Originally from Italy, where he completed his studies and started his career as a full-stack developer, he now lives in Spain, where he previously worked in two start-upssource{d} and Cabify. He is now working for three companiesas a software crafter for BBVA, one of the biggest Spanish banks; as a software architect for Security First, London, a company focusing on digital and physical security; and as a cofounder of DauMau, the company behind Vidsey, software that generates videos in a procedural manner.

Corey Scott is a principal software engineer currently living in Melbourne, Australia. He has been programming professionally since 2000, with the last 5 years spent building large-scale distributed services in Go.

A blogger on a variety of software-related topics, he is passionate about designing and building quality software. He believes that software engineering is a craft that should be honed, debated, and continuously improved. He takes a pragmatic, non-zealous approach to coding, and is always up for a good debate about software engineering, continuous delivery, testing, or clean coding.

Janani Selvaraj is currently working as a data analytics consultant for Gaddiel Technologies, Trichy, where she focuses on providing data analytics solutions for start-up companies. Her previous experience includes training and research development in relation to data analytics and machine learning.

She has a PhD in environmental management and has more than 5 years' research experience with regard to statistical modeling. She is also proficient in a number of programming languages, including R, Python, and Go.

She reviewed a book entitled Go Machine Learning Projects, and also coauthored a book entitled Machine Learning Using Go, published by Packt Publishing.

Arun Muralidharan is a software developer with over 9 years' experience as a systems developer. Distributed system design, architecture, event systems, scalability, performance, and programming languages are some of the aspects of a product that interest him the most. Professionally, he spends most of his time coding in C++, Python, and C (and perhaps Go in the near future). Away from his job, he also develops software in Go and Rust.

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This book will provide good, in-depth explanations of various interesting Go concepts. It begins with Unix and system programming, which will help you understand what components the Unix operating system has to offer, from the kernel API to the filesystem, and allow you to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of system programming.

Next, it moves on to cover the application of I/O operations, focusing on the filesystem, files, and streams in the Unix operating system. It covers many topics, including reading from and writing to files, among other I/O operations.