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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

Chapter 7. AWS I – Fundamentals, AWS SDK for Go, and EC2

Welcome to a new step in our journey to learn cloud programming in the Go language. In this chapter, we'll start discussing cloud technologies by covering the popular Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. AWS was among the first cloud platforms to be offered for customers to use in their start-ups, their enterprises, and even for their personal side projects. AWS was launched by Amazon in 2006 and has been growing continuously ever since. Due to the large size of the topic, we will divide the material into two chapters. 

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The fundamentals of AWS
  • The AWS SDK for Go
  • How to set up and secure EC2 instances