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Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

By : Achilleas Anagnostopoulos
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Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

By: Achilleas Anagnostopoulos

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, Go has become one of the favorite languages for building scalable and distributed systems. Its opinionated design and built-in concurrency features make it easy for engineers to author code that efficiently utilizes all available CPU cores. This Golang book distills industry best practices for writing lean Go code that is easy to test and maintain, and helps you to explore its practical implementation by creating a multi-tier application called Links ‘R’ Us from scratch. You’ll be guided through all the steps involved in designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and scaling an application. Starting with a monolithic architecture, you’ll iteratively transform the project into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that supports the efficient out-of-core processing of large link graphs. You’ll learn about various cutting-edge and advanced software engineering techniques such as building extensible data processing pipelines, designing APIs using gRPC, and running distributed graph processing algorithms at scale. Finally, you’ll learn how to compile and package your Go services using Docker and automate their deployment to a Kubernetes cluster. By the end of this book, you’ll know how to think like a professional software developer or engineer and write lean and efficient Go code.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Software Engineering and the Software Development Life Cycle
3
Section 2: Best Practices for Maintainable and Testable Go Code
7
Section 3: Designing and Building a Multi-Tier System from Scratch
14
Section 4: Scaling Out to Handle a Growing Number of Users
18
Epilogue

Chapter 13

  1. A service-level indicator (SLI) is a type of metric that allows us to quantify the perceived quality of the service from the perspective of the end user (for example, metrics such as availability, throughput, and latency). A service-level objective (SLO) is the range of values for some SLIs that allow us to deliver a particular level of service to an end user or customer.
  2. A service-level agreement (SLA) is an implicit or explicit contract between a service provider and one or more service consumers. The SLA outlines a set of SLOs that have to be met and the consequences (financial or not) for meeting and failing to meet them.
  3. In a push-based metrics collection system, the metric-producing clients connect to the metrics collection and aggregation service over a TCP or UDP connection and publish their metrics. In a pull-based system, the metrics collection system, at...