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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

More on AWS


In this book, we dedicated two chapters to providing a practical dive into AWS fundamentals, with a focus on how to write Go microservices that would site comfortably on Amazon's cloud. However, AWS is a very deep topic that deserves an entire book to cover it as opposed to just a few chapters. In this section, we will provide brief overviews on some useful AWS technologies that we didn't get a chance to cover in this book. You can use the following section as an introduction for your next steps in learning AWS.

DynamoDB streams

In Chapter 8AWS II - S3, SQS, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, we covered the popular AWS DynamoDB service. We learned what DynamoDB is, how it models data, and how to write Go applications that can harness DynamoDB's power.  

There is one powerful feature of DynamoDB that we didn't get a chance to cover in this book, which is known as DynamoDB streams. DynamoDB streams allow us to capture changes that happen to items in a DynamoDB table, at the same time the...