Book excerpt: Go Recipes provides an invaluable reference to using the Go programming language, showing idiomatic and best practice code for solving common problems encountered by developers in all industries. Each recipe tackles a single problem, showing one or more ways to solve it with fully working code accompanied by a discussion of the techniques and language features. Common pitfalls and performance issues are explained, helping you streamline your development and rapidly create robust working code. This book provides solutions for creating fast, reliable and secure applications; covers the entire Go standard library and the best third party packages; and will have lasting appeal as a reference whenever you need to tackle a new development project.