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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

Summary


That's it for this chapter, we have just written our first microservice in Go and only using the standard library, you should now have an appreciation of just how powerful the standard library is providing us with many of the features we need to write RESTful and RPC-based microservices. We have also looked at encoding and decoding data using the encoding/json package and how we can create light weight messaging by using gobs.

As you progress through this book, you will see how the many, wonderful open source packages build on these foundations to make Go such a fantastic language for microservice development, and by the end of the book you will have all the knowledge required for successfully building microservices in Go.