Backend development: Go

Sefism.Backend development: Go

Tauseef Fayyaz

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Glossary

Every concept in this sheet, plus the smaller terms it uses. Select a concept to open its card.

C

context.Context: A value passed as the first argument through a call chain that carries a deadline, a cancellation signal and request-scoped values such as a trace ID.

E

Errors as values: Go functions return an error alongside the result, and callers check it explicitly.

G

Git commits and branches: Git records snapshots of your project as commits.
Goroutines and channels: A goroutine is a function running concurrently, costing a few kilobytes of stack.

P

Packages and Go modules: A module is a versioned collection of packages defined by go.mod; go.sum records checksums.
Pull requests: A pull request proposes merging a branch into main and shows the diff, CI results and review comments in one place.

S

Structs and implicit interfaces: A struct holds data and methods.

T

Terminal essentials: A shell runs commands such as cd, ls, cat, grep and curl, and pipes (|) feed one command's output into the next.