About This BookWrite concise and maintainable code with streams and high-order functionsUnderstand the benefits of currying your Golang functionsLearn the most effective design patterns for functional programming and learn when to apply each of themBuild distributed MapReduce solutions using GoWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Golang developers comfortable with OOP and interested in learning how to apply the functional paradigm to create robust and testable apps. Prior programming experience with Go would be helpful, but not mandatory.What You Will LearnLearn how to compose reliable applications using high-order functionsExplore techniques to eliminate side-effects using FP techniques such as curryingUse first-class functions to implement pure functionsUnderstand how to implement a lambda expression in GoCompose a working application using the decorator patternCreate faster programs using lazy evaluationUse Go concurrency constructs to compose a functionality pipelin