| This page links to resources for learning about server programming in Go - both web services and mobile backends. The items are organized into sections by topic. |
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| ## Getting Started |
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| - Read [Writing Web Applications with the Go standard library](http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/) |
| - Read [Building Web Applications in Go](https://www.gitbook.com/book/codegangsta/building-web-apps-with-go/details) from the author of the [Negroni](https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni) and [Martini](http://martini.codegangsta.io/) webserver toolkits. |
| - Read [Build a Web Application With Go](https://github.com/astaxie/build-web-application-with-golang) from the author of the [BeeGo web framework](http://beego.me/) |
| - Code [A Tour of Go: Web Servers](http://tour.golang.org/methods/13) and [HTTP Handlers](http://tour.golang.org/methods/14) |
| - Watch [Go: code that grows with grace](http://talks.golang.org/2012/chat.slide#1) |
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| ### Middleware |
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| A topic you will see discussed frequently is "middleware". If you're not familiar with that term, we suggest you start out by reading a few of these articles: |
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| * [Writing Handsome Golang Middleware](http://laicos.com/writing-handsome-golang-middleware/) _2015-05-05_ |
| * [Middleware in Go: Best practices and examples](https://www.nicolasmerouze.com/middlewares-golang-best-practices-examples/) _2014-11-13_ |
| * [Making and Using HTTP Middleware](http://www.alexedwards.net/blog/making-and-using-middleware) _2014-10-21_ |
| * [Writing HTTP Middleware in Go](https://justinas.org/writing-http-middleware-in-go/) _2013-10-09_ |
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| ## Toolkits and Frameworks |
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| Before you decide to adopt a third party web framework or toolkit, keep in mind that the Go standard library provides all of the tools you need to build a sophisticated, modern web application. Keeping with Go's preference for simplicity and composability over complexity and magic, we suggest you [see how far the standard library can take you](http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/). |
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| If you decide you need a bit more infrastructure, start by looking at some of the toolkits and libraries available. |
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| ### Toolikits & Libraries & Microframeworks |
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| * [Gorilla Toolkit](http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/) |
| * [Negroni Toolkit - Idiomatic HTTP Middleware for Go](https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni) |
| * [Echo Framework - Fast and Unfancy](http://echo.labstack.com/) |
| * [Goji Web Microframework](https://goji.io/) |
| * [Go Craft Middleware](https://github.com/gocraft/web) |
| * [Go RESTful](https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful) - Toolkit for RESTful service APIs |
| * [Kite Micro-service framework](https://github.com/koding/kite) |
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| ### Frameworks |
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| * [GinGonic](https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/) |
| * [Revel Web Framework](https://revel.github.io/) |
| * [BeeGo Framework](http://beego.me/) |
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| ## Communication |
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| - [Package net/http](http://golang.org/pkg/net/http) provides HTTP client and server implementations. |
| - [Package encoding/json](http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json) implements encoding and decoding of JSON objects as defined in RFC 4627. |
| - [Package net/rpc](http://golang.org/pkg/net/rpc) provides access to the exported methods of an object across a network or other I/O connection. |
| - [Package os/exec](http://golang.org/pkg/os/exec) runs external commands. |
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| ## Presentation |
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| - [Package text/template](http://golang.org/pkg/text/template) implements data-driven templates for generating textual output. |
| - [Package html/template](http://golang.org/pkg/html/template) implements data-driven templates for generating HTML output safe against code injection. |
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| ## Profiling and Performance |
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| - Read [Profiling Go Programs](http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs) |
| - Read [Arrays, slices (and strings): The mechanics of 'append'](http://blog.golang.org/slices) |
| - Read the [Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)](http://golang.org/doc/faq), especially |
| - [Why does Go perform badly on benchmark X?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_does_Go_perform_badly_on_benchmark_x) |
| - [Why do garbage collection? Won't it be too expensive?](http://golang.org/doc/faq#garbage_collection) |
| - [Package bufio](http://golang.org/pkg/bufio) implements buffered I/O. |
| - [Package runtime/pprof](http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/pprof) writes runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool. |
| - [Package net/http/pprof](http://golang.org/pkg/net/http/pprof) serves via its HTTP server runtime profiling data in the format expected by the pprof visualization tool. |
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| ## Tracing, Monitoring, Logging, and Configuration |
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| - [Package expvar](http://golang.org/pkg/expvar) provides a standardized interface to public variables, such as operation counters in servers. |
| - [Package flag](http://golang.org/pkg/flag) implements command-line flag parsing. |
| - [Package log](http://golang.org/pkg/log) implements a simple logging package. |
| - [Package glog](https://github.com/golang/glog) implements logging analogous to the Google-internal C++ INFO/ERROR/V setup. |
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| ## Storage |
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| - [Package os](http://golang.org/pkg/os) provides a platform-independent interface to operating system functionality. |
| - [Package path/filepath](http://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath) implements utility routines for manipulating filename paths in a way compatible with the target operating system-defined file paths. |
| - [Package database/sql](http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql) provides a generic interface around SQL (or SQL-like) databases. |
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| ## Platforms |
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| ### Google Cloud Platform |
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| - Read [Google Cloud Platform: Go Runtime Environment](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/go/) |
| - Watch [Go and the Google Cloud Platform](http://blog.golang.org/go-and-google-cloud-platform) |
| - Read [Go on App Engine: tools, tests, and concurrency](http://blog.golang.org/appengine-dec2013) |
| - Read [Deploying Go servers with Docker](http://blog.golang.org/docker) |
| - Search packages for [Google Cloud](http://godoc.org/?q=google+cloud) or [gcloud](http://godoc.org/?q=gcloud) |
| - Search packages for [App Engine](http://godoc.org/?q=appengine) or [GAE](http://godoc.org/?q=gae) |
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| ### Amazon Web Services |
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| - The [aws-sdk-go](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-go) repository provides automatically generated AWS clients in Go. It has [official support](http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/coming-soon-aws-sdk-for-go) from Amazon. |
| - [Package goamz](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/goamz) enables Go programs to interact with the Amazon Web Services. |
| - Search packages for [AWS](http://godoc.org/?q=aws) or [Amazon services](http://godoc.org/?q=amazon+service) |
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| ### Microsoft Azure |
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| - Microsoft OpenTech's [azure-sdk-for-go](https://github.com/MSOpenTech/azure-sdk-for-go) provides a Golang package that makes it easy to consume and manage Microsoft Azure Services. |
| - Search packages for [Azure](http://godoc.org/?q=azure) |
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| ### Openstack / Rackspace |
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| - Rackspace's [gophercloud](https://github.com/rackspace/gophercloud) is a Golang SDK for working with OpenStack clouds. |
| - Search packages for [Openstack](http://godoc.org/?q=openstack) or [Rackspace](http://godoc.org/?q=rackspace) |
