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Building RESTful Web services with Go

By : Naren Yellavula
Book Image

Building RESTful Web services with Go

By: Naren Yellavula

Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services and in today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Go, makes it a breeze for developers to work with it to build robust Web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages a framework like Gin to implement these services. The book starts with a brief introduction to REST API development and how it transformed the modern web. You will learn how to handle routing and authentication of web services along with working with middleware for internal service. The book explains how to use Go frameworks to build RESTful web services and work with MongoDB to create REST API. You will learn how to integrate Postgres SQL and JSON with a Go web service and build a client library in Go for consuming REST API. You will learn how to scale APIs using the microservice architecture and deploy the REST APIs using Nginx as a proxy server. Finally you will learn how to metricize a REST API using an API Gateway. By the end of the book you will be proficient in building RESTful APIs in Go.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my grandmother, Tayamma, for raising me to be helpful to others by sharing my knowledge in every possible way. She was the one who always taught me how to put in serious effort with 100% dedication, and not worry much about results. Therefore, I dedicate this book to her, to my inspiration.

I also cannot understate the support given by my father, Venkataiah Yellavula; mother, ShobaRani Dasyam; and lovely younger brother Saikiran, who understood the value of the time I spent on this book and always encouraged me with their positive wishes. I am grateful to my mentor, Chandrashekar MuniBudha, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, whom I am deeply indebted to. I also thank  Ashwin Baskaran, Senior Director, Citrix, who encouraged and pushed me forward in all possible ways. Thank you! 

I cannot name everyone here; the list is so big. However, I sincerely thank all my friends who always wished success for this book.