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Building Microservices with Go

By : Nic Jackson
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Building Microservices with Go

By: Nic Jackson

Overview of this book

Microservice architecture is sweeping the world as the de facto pattern to build web-based applications. Golang is a language particularly well suited to building them. Its strong community, encouragement of idiomatic style, and statically-linked binary artifacts make integrating it with other technologies and managing microservices at scale consistent and intuitive. This book will teach you the common patterns and practices, showing you how to apply these using the Go programming language. It will teach you the fundamental concepts of architectural design and RESTful communication, and show you patterns that provide manageable code that is supportable in development and at scale in production. We will provide you with examples on how to put these concepts and patterns into practice with Go. Whether you are planning a new application or working in an existing monolith, this book will explain and illustrate with practical examples how teams of all sizes can start solving problems with microservices. It will help you understand Docker and Docker-Compose and how it can be used to isolate microservice dependencies and build environments. We finish off by showing you various techniques to monitor, test, and secure your microservices. By the end, you will know the benefits of system resilience of a microservice and the advantages of Go stack.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

RPC APIs


RPC stands for remote procedure call; it is a method of executing a function or method on a remote machine. RPC has been around since the dawn of time and there are many different types of RPC technology some of which relies on there being an interface definition (SOAP, Thrift Protocol Buffers). This interface definition can make it easier to generate client and server stubs for different technology stacks. Generally, the interface is defined using a DSL (domain specific language) and a generator program will use this to create application clients and servers.

Where REST needs to use HTTP as a transport layer, RPC is not bound by this constraint, and while it is possible to send RPC calls over HTTP, you can use the lightness of TCP or even UDP sockets if you choose to.

RPC has seen a resurgence in use lately with many large-scale systems built by the likes of Uber, Google, Netflix, and so on are using RPC. Due to the speed and performance that you can get from the lower latency from...