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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

Domain-driven design


When implementing event-driven microservices, you need to have a good grasp of the way your system operates and the way data and interactions flow from one service to the next. A useful technique for modeling any complex system is domain-driven design.

When it comes to domain-driven design, there is Vernon Vaughn, whose two books, Domain-Driven Design Distilled and Implementing Domain-Driven Design, published by Addison-Wesley Professional, expand upon the seminal, and for some, there is a slightly difficult-to-read work by Eric Evans. For newcomers to DDD, I recommend starting with Domain-Driven Design Distilled and then moving to read Implementing Domain-Driven Design. Reading Domain-Driven Design Distilled first gives you a grounding of the terminology before you delve into what is a rather detailed book. DDD is most certainly an advanced topic and not something that can be covered comprehensively in one section of this book, nor do I profess to have the experience...