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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

Exceptions


One of the great things about Go is that the standard patterns are such that you should always handle errors when they occur, instead of bubbling them up to the top and presenting them to the user. Having said that, there is always a case when the unexpected happens. The secret to this is to know about it and to fix the problem when it occurs. There are many exception logging platforms on the market. However, the two techniques we have discussed are, in my opinion, more than sufficient for tracing the few errors that we hopefully will find in our web application.

Panic and recover

Go has two great methods for handling unexpected errors:

  • panic
  • recover

Panic

The built-in panic function stops the normal execution of the current goroutine. All the deferred functions are run in the normal way; then, the program is terminated:

func panic(v interface{}) 

Recover

The recover function allows an application to manage the behavior of a panicking goroutine. When called inside a deferred function,...