| This page links to resources for learning about server programming in Go. The items are organized into sections by topic. |
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| Go servers process each request in its own goroutine. To share memory safely, these goroutines must communicate. [LearnConcurrency](/golang/go/wiki/LearnConcurrency) outlines a course of study. |
| ## 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 http/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 [Arrays, slices (and strings): The mechanics of 'append'](http://blog.golang.org/slices) |
| - Read [Profiling Go Programs](http://blog.golang.org/profiling-go-programs) |
| - [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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| - 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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| - [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) |
