Matthew Boyle - Domain-Driven Design with Golang: Use Golang to create simple, maintainable systems to solve complex business problems

Use Golang to create simple, maintainable systems to solve complex business problems

Matthew Boyle

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To my partner Hannah, who is always supportive of my schemes, no matter how ludicrous (writing this book being one of my wilder ones).

To the memory of my mother Sarah, whom I miss every day and Im certain would have displayed this book proudly (but never have read it).

Matthew Boyleis an experienced technical leader in the field of distributed systems, specializing in using Go. He has worked at huge companies such as Cloudflare and General Electric, as well as exciting high-growth startups such as Curve and Crowdcube. Matt has been writing Go for production since 2018 and often shares blog posts and fun trivia about Go over on Twitter ( @MattJamesBoyle).

Matthew Williamsis a (mainly) backend Software Engineer generally working in Java or Kotlin, who has dabbled in Go. Regardless of the language used, he is a proponent of Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development and occasionally, Frustration-Driven Development. Originally a University of Birmingham Computer Science classmate of the author, he has spent time working across both the public and private sectors in the UK and Australia. Working for the likes of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, SAP, and Tyro on domains including scientific research proposals, e-commerce, and payments, the need to understand and use the language of the domain has always been clear.

Chris Shepherdis currently employed as a Systems Engineer building large scale, highly-available and robust distributed systems. He has worked within software engineering for more than seven years, the majority of which have been dedicated to writing Go.