Go in Action, Second Edition
Sep 2026 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning.
Go in Action, Second Edition has been substantially rewritten for modern Go, fully updated with the language, tooling, and development practices Go programmers use today.
About the reader
Professional developers proficient in at least one object-oriented language who want to build high-performance backend systems, cloud native applications, or AI-integrated pipelines.
About the author
Joel Holmes is a software developer building cloud native applications at EasyPost. Andy Walker is a Google Developer Expert in Go and Gophercon staff member. A coauthor of the first edition of Go in Action, William Kennedy is a founding member of GoBridge.
Go in Action, Second Edition has been substantially rewritten for modern Go, fully updated with the language, tooling, and development practices Go programmers use today.
- Completely updated for modern Go, with examples requiring Go 1.25 or later
- An entirely new chapter on generics, including type parameters, constraints, generic functions and data structures
- Error handling, including sentinel errors, custom error types, and error wrapping
- Testing workflows including unit testing, TDD, benchmarking, profiling, and Go’s built-in fuzz testing.
- Updated concurrency coverage built around a practical concurrent RSS reader
- Modern structured logging with log/slog alongside Go’s standard library
- Go modules and workspaces, replacing the GOPATH-era dependency-management material from the first edition and showing how to organize larger, multimodule Go projects
- New production-oriented architecture examples, including interfaces, dependency inversion, domain-driven design, and hexagonal architecture
- Two brand-new AI-focused appendices covering LLM-powered summarization and retrieval-augmented generation
- New and rewritten examples throughout designed around real applications
About the reader
Professional developers proficient in at least one object-oriented language who want to build high-performance backend systems, cloud native applications, or AI-integrated pipelines.
About the author
Joel Holmes is a software developer building cloud native applications at EasyPost. Andy Walker is a Google Developer Expert in Go and Gophercon staff member. A coauthor of the first edition of Go in Action, William Kennedy is a founding member of GoBridge.
Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning.
Go in Action, Second Edition has been substantially rewritten for modern Go, fully updated with the language, tooling, and development practices Go programmers use today.
Completely updated for modern Go, with examples requiring G...
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About the author
Joel Holmes is a software developer focused on building cloud native applications. He has worked at several start-ups helping architect, design, and develop new products and services to help those companies develop and grow. Along the way, he was able to help establish tools and processes that helped development and increase quality. Joel is an Open Source contributor, including to DevOps projects that are written in Go such as VMWare's Carvel-vendir.
Andy Walker is a software engineer working with over a decade’s experience using Go. He has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Go and is a community organizer and Gophercon Staff member. He leads Go meetups, and has given many classes and presentations on the language.
William Kennedy is a seasoned software developer, author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and organizer for the Go-Miami and Miami MongoDB meetups.
Andy Walker is a software engineer working with over a decade’s experience using Go. He has been recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Go and is a community organizer and Gophercon Staff member. He leads Go meetups, and has given many classes and presentations on the language.
William Kennedy is a seasoned software developer, author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and organizer for the Go-Miami and Miami MongoDB meetups.
Joel Holmes is a software developer focused on building cloud native applications. He has worked at several start-ups helping architect, design, and develop new products and services to help those companies develop and grow. Along the way, he was able to help establish tools and processes that he...
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