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Microservices with Go

By : Alexander Shuiskov
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Microservices with Go

By: Alexander Shuiskov

Overview of this book

This book covers the key benefits and common issues of microservices, helping you understand the problems microservice architecture helps to solve, the issues it usually introduces, and the ways to tackle them. You’ll start by learning about the importance of using the right principles and standards in order to achieve the key benefits of microservice architecture. The following chapters will explain why the Go programming language is one of the most popular languages for microservice development and lay down the foundations for the next chapters of the book. You’ll explore the foundational aspects of Go microservice development including service scaffolding, service discovery, data serialization, synchronous and asynchronous communication, deployment, and testing. After covering the development aspects, you’ll progress to maintenance and reliability topics. The last part focuses on more advanced topics of Go microservice development including system reliability, observability, maintainability, and scalability. In this part, you’ll dive into the best practices and examples which illustrate how to apply the key ideas to existing applications, using the services scaffolded in the previous part as examples. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained hands-on experience with everything you need to develop scalable, reliable and performant microservices using Go.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
3
Part 2: Foundation
12
Part 3: Maintenance

Collecting Service Telemetry Data

In the previous chapter, we explored the topic of service reliability and described various techniques for making your services more resilient to different types of errors. You learned that reliability-related work consists of making constant improvements in incident detection, mitigation, and prevention techniques.

In this chapter, we are going to take a closer look at various types of service performance data, which is essential for setting up service health monitoring and debugging and automating service incident detection. You will learn how to collect service logs, metrics, and traces, and how to visualize and debug communication between your microservices using the distributed tracing technique.

We will cover the following topics:

  • Telemetry overview
  • Collecting service logs
  • Collecting service metrics
  • Collecting service traces

Now, let’s proceed to the overview of all the techniques that we are going to describe...