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Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang

By : Jyotiswarup Raiturkar
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Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang

By: Jyotiswarup Raiturkar

Overview of this book

Building software requires careful planning and architectural considerations; Golang was developed with a fresh perspective on building next-generation applications on the cloud with distributed and concurrent computing concerns. Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang starts with a brief introduction to architectural elements, Go, and a case study to demonstrate architectural principles. You'll then move on to look at code-level aspects such as modularity, class design, and constructs specific to Golang and implementation of design patterns. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll explore the core objectives of architecture such as effectively managing complexity, scalability, and reliability of software systems. You'll also work through creating distributed systems and their communication before moving on to modeling and scaling of data. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn to deploy architectures and plan the migration of applications from other languages. By the end of this book, you will have gained insight into various design and architectural patterns, which will enable you to create robust, scalable architecture using Golang.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Distributed system quirks

Distributed systems are more difficult to engineer and are quite error-prone, as compared to single program ones. In 1994, Peter Deutsch, who worked at Sun Microsystems, wrote about common wrong assumptions that developers/architects make, which cause things to go wrong in distributed systems. In 1997, James Gosling added to this list to create what is commonly known as the eight fallacies of distributed computing. They are described here.

The network is reliable

Things always go wrong with individual components of the networkswhether it be power failures or cable cuts. Networks are typically architected at the hardware level using a set of redundant links and software is responsible for providing...