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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

Introducing Containers with Docker


Docker is a platform that has risen to prominence in the last three years; it was born out of the desire to simplify the process of building, shipping, and running applications. Docker is not the inventor of the container, Jacques Gélinas created the VServer project back in 2001, and since then the other main projects have been LXC from IBM and rkt from CoreOS.

If you would like to read more about the history, then I recommend this excellent blog post by Redhat: http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/08/28/the-history-of-containers, this section is going to concentrate on Docker which is by far the most popular current technology.

The concept of a container is process isolation and application packaging. To quote Docker:

A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings. ... Containers isolate software from its surroundings,...