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Cloud Native programming with Golang

By : Mina Andrawos, Martin Helmich
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Cloud Native programming with Golang

By: Mina Andrawos, Martin Helmich

Overview of this book

Awarded as one of the best books of all time by BookAuthority, Cloud Native Programming with Golang will take you on a journey into the world of microservices and cloud computing with the help of Go. Cloud computing and microservices are two very important concepts in modern software architecture. They represent key skills that ambitious software engineers need to acquire in order to design and build software applications capable of performing and scaling. Go is a modern cross-platform programming language that is very powerful yet simple; it is an excellent choice for microservices and cloud applications. Go is gaining more and more popularity, and becoming a very attractive skill. This book starts by covering the software architectural patterns of cloud applications, as well as practical concepts regarding how to scale, distribute, and deploy those applications. You will also learn how to build a JavaScript-based front-end for your application, using TypeScript and React. From there, we dive into commercial cloud offerings by covering AWS. Finally, we conclude our book by providing some overviews of other concepts and technologies that you can explore, to move from where the book leaves off.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
7
AWS I – Fundamentals, AWS SDK for Go, and EC2

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to use Prometheus and Grafana to set up a monitoring stack to monitor both your application's health on a technical level (by keeping an eye on system metrics, such as RAM and CPU usage) and custom, application-specific metrics, such as, in this case, the amount of booked tickets.

Over the course of this book, we have covered almost the entire lifecycle of a typical Go cloud application, starting at architecture and the actual programming, building container images, continuously deploying them in various cloud environments, and monitoring your applications.

In the following chapter, we will take the opportunity to look back in detail at what we have achieved so far and also point out where to go from here.