fosdem2018-godevroom-networkingdeepdive

Networking deepdive—From net.Dial to gRPC

Event: FOSDEM 2018 Go devroom.

Slide deck

Note: many of my code examples are based on Network Programming with Go by Jan Newmarch and you can also check out the commands I use.

Basics

We start off with a review of the stdlib net package and its sub-packages, walk through common use cases, patterns and challenges:

• Discussion of net and sub-packages
• Socket-level programming
• Timeouts, retries
• Security
• DNS

Best practices

In the second part we focus on best practices using the stdlib and community-provided frameworks for networking:

• Best practices writing networked applications
• Review of non-stdlib packages useful for networking: golang.org/x/net/websocket, gorilla/websocket, gRPC