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Network programming with Go (2012)

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This book appeared very shortly after Go hit 1.0. It was an invaluable resource at the time. Now, maybe not so much, but thanks to Jan for putting in the work when it was dearly needed by the community.

Agreed, I was looking through the examples in the HTTP chapter and they're not very idiomatic Go code by today's standards. For HTTP at least, you're better off following the examples from the official Go documentation than following this book.

I can't speak to the rest of the book, which seems like a pretty ambitious effort, but the crypto content needs to be burned out of it with a scorching torch.

What resources on security would you recommend for developers that are not specializing in security?

There are a lot of land mines of misinformation on the Internet today.

"Security" is a big topic. For cryptography, a good (but inadequate) starting point is _Cryptography Engineering_. If you write cryptography the way this book suggests you should, you will implement egregious vulnerabilities.

This is quite dated considering it says "v1.0, 27 April 2012".

It also is for Go version 1 which explains why some of the packages are no longer available.

Go is backwards-compatible since version 1. All standard library packages are still there. Only chapter 14 and 15 predate Go 1.

We thought the book had some good parts. If you want to see more examples, Russ Whites' blog http://ntwrk.guru/ actually dissects a network protocol stack written in go. He goes fairly deep as the protocols are open sourced and written in go. He mainly focuses on BGP in GO. Fun read. Very insightful.

This is off-top a bit (sorry for that) but does anyone know a good auth framework that plugs into a martini, etc.

I basically am hoping for something written in go that works almost as seamlessly as django auth module (or ROR if you prefer ruby).

For martini specifically, there are a couple libs found under martini-contrib community [1], but nothing on the maturity level of django/rails. It's still fairly wild-west unless you're content using http basic auth.

[1] https://github.com/martini-contrib/

thanks!

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