This page links to resources for learning about server programming in Go. The items are organized into sections by topic.

Communication

• Package net/http provides HTTP client and server implementations.
• Package encoding/json implements encoding and decoding of JSON objects as defined in RFC 4627.
• Package net/rpc provides access to the exported methods of an object across a network or other I/O connection.
• Package os/exec runs external commands.
• Read Go Concurrency Patterns: Context

Presentation

• Package text/template implements data-driven templates for generating textual output.
• Package http/template implements data-driven templates for generating HTML output safe against code injection.

Profiling and Performance

• Read Arrays, slices (and strings): The mechanics of ‘append’
• Read Profiling Go Programs
• Package runtime/pprof writes runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.
• Package net/http/pprof serves via its HTTP server runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool.

Tracing, Monitoring, Logging, and Configuration

• Package expvar provides a standardized interface to public variables, such as operation counters in servers.
• Package flag implements command-line flag parsing.
• Package log implements a simple logging package.
• Package glog implements logging analogous to the Google-internal C++ INFO/ERROR/V setup.

Storage

• Package os provides a platform-independent interface to operating system functionality.
• Package path/filepath implements utility routines for manipulating filename paths in a way compatible with the target operating system-defined file paths.
• Package database/sql provides a generic interface around SQL (or SQL-like) databases.

Platforms

Google Cloud Platform

• Watch Go and the Google Cloud Platform
• Read Go on App Engine: tools, tests, and concurrency
• Read Deploying Go servers with Docker
• Search for App Engine or GAE packages

Amazon Web Services

• Package goamz enables Go programs to interact with the Amazon Web Services.
• Search for AWS packages

Microsoft Azure

• Microsoft OpenTech's azure-sdk-for-go
• Search for Azure packages