Creating Your First Server in Go

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Creating a simple HTTP server
• Implementing basic authentication on a simple HTTP server
• Optimizing HTTP server responses with GZIP compression
• Creating a simple TCP server
• Reading data from a TCP connection
• Writing data to a TCP connection
• Implementing HTTP request routing
• Implementing HTTP request routing using Gorilla Mux
• Logging HTTP requests