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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

Summary

We have discussed the key aspects of the microservice development model, including the motivation to use it, the common benefits, and the possible challenges. You have learned that the microservice model brings many advantages, helping you achieve a higher degree of flexibility. It also comes with its own costs, which often include additional complexity and a lack of uniformness in the system. Microservice architecture requires you to think about these problems proactively in order to address them before they become big issues.

In the next chapter, we are going to start our journey into microservice development with the Go language. You will learn the important basics of the Go programming language and we will scaffold our microservices, which we are going to improve throughout the rest of the book.