I think Mark Summerfield's book is quite a good introduction: http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook.html http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook.html Many of his examples touch upon

I think Mark Summerfield's book is quite a good introduction: http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook.html http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook.html Many of his examples touch upon sysadmin work, such as the MP3 playlist conversion, implementing concurrent grep, and coverage of common file formats (XML, JSON, plain text) and archive formats. It's also a good introduction to Go. At times it drinks the kool-aid a bit to much, it sometimes takes quite mundane constructs as an example how stellar Go is (let's be honest, Go is quite a boring language, but boring can be good at times).