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Building Microservices with Go

By : Nic Jackson
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Building Microservices with Go

By: Nic Jackson

Overview of this book

Microservice architecture is sweeping the world as the de facto pattern to build web-based applications. Golang is a language particularly well suited to building them. Its strong community, encouragement of idiomatic style, and statically-linked binary artifacts make integrating it with other technologies and managing microservices at scale consistent and intuitive. This book will teach you the common patterns and practices, showing you how to apply these using the Go programming language. It will teach you the fundamental concepts of architectural design and RESTful communication, and show you patterns that provide manageable code that is supportable in development and at scale in production. We will provide you with examples on how to put these concepts and patterns into practice with Go. Whether you are planning a new application or working in an existing monolith, this book will explain and illustrate with practical examples how teams of all sizes can start solving problems with microservices. It will help you understand Docker and Docker-Compose and how it can be used to isolate microservice dependencies and build environments. We finish off by showing you various techniques to monitor, test, and secure your microservices. By the end, you will know the benefits of system resilience of a microservice and the advantages of Go stack.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Micro


The first framework we are going to look at is Micro, by Asim Aslam. It has been under active development over the last couple of years and has production credentials as a result of its utilization at the car rental firm, Sixt. Micro is a pluggable RPC microservices framework supporting service discovery, load balancing, synchronous and asynchronous communication, and multiple message-encoding formats. For a more in-depth overview of Micro's features and to check out the source code, it is hosted on GitHub at the following location: https://github.com/micro/go-micro.

Setup

Installation for Micro is easy; well, it is Go, so it should be. You need to install protoc, the application for generating source code, which is part of Google's Protocol Buffers package. As a messaging protocol, protobufs are taking off big time, and you will find this messaging protocol used in quite a few frameworks we are going to look at in this chapter.

Code generation

The protoc application is used for generating...