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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

Maintenance


One important element of keeping your system secure is making sure you keep it up to date with all the latest security patches. This approach needs to be applied to your application code and your server's operating system and applications, and, if you are using Docker, you also need to ensure that your containers are up to date to ensure you are free from vulnerabilities.

Patching containers

One of the simplest ways to keep your containers secure is to ensure that you build and deploy them regularly. Quite often, if a service is not under active development, then it may not be deployed to production for months on end. Because of this problem, you may be patching host-level application libraries such as OpenSSL, but because of the application isolation that a container gives, you may have vulnerable binaries at a container level. The simplest way of keeping things up to date is to run a regular build and deploy even if the application code does not change. You also need to ensure...