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Full-Stack Web Development with Go

By : Nanik Tolaram, Nick Glynn
Book Image

Full-Stack Web Development with Go

By: Nanik Tolaram, Nick Glynn

Overview of this book

Go is a modern programming language with capabilities to enable high-performance app development. With its growing web framework ecosystem, Go is a preferred choice for building complete web apps. This practical guide will enable you to take your Go skills to the next level building full stack apps. This book walks you through creating and developing a complete modern web service from auth, middleware, server-side rendering, databases, and modern frontend frameworks and Go-powered APIs. You’ll start by structuring the app and important aspects such as networking, before integrating all the different parts together to build a complete web product. Next, you’ll learn how to build and ship a complete product by starting with the fundamental building blocks of creating a Go backend. You’ll apply best practices for cookies, APIs, and security, and level up your skills with the fastest growing frontend framework, Vue. Once your full stack application is ready, you’ll understand how to push the app to production and be prepared to serve customers and share it with the world. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to build and ship secure, scalable, and complete products and how to combine Golang with existing products using best practices.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building a Golang Backend
5
Part 2:Serving Web Content
9
Part 3:Single-Page Apps with Vue and Go
14
Part 4:Release and Deployment

Application Metrics and Tracing

In Chapter 2, Application Logging, we looked at logging, and how we use logging inside our backend Go code. In this chapter, we will proceed to look at monitoring and tracing. To monitor and trace the application, we will look into different open source tools and libraries.

We have started building our application, and now we need to start looking into how we are going to support it. Once an application is running in production, we need to see what’s happening in the application. Having this kind of visibility will allow us to understand problems that come up. In software systems, we will often come across the concept of observability. The concept refers to the ability of software systems to capture and store data used for analysis and troubleshooting purposes. This includes the processes and tools used in order to achieve the goal of allowing users to observe what’s happening in the system.

In this chapter, we’ll be covering...