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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)

Column family stores

An increasing prevalent new family of stores are column family stores, which partition rows so that a table can stride across multiple machines. On each machine, the row data is structured as a multidimensional sorted map. The distribution helps in scaling the store to a large amount of data, while the sorted attribute helps in doing things such as range scans. This design was first promulgated by the Google BigTable team (https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub27898).

In the following sections, we will take a detailed look at an example: Cassandra.

Cassandra deep-dive

Apache Cassandra is an open source implementation of the BigTable idea, but with other constructs as well. For example, it also incorporates...