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Go Web Development Cookbook

By : Arpit Aggarwal
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Go Web Development Cookbook

By: Arpit Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Go is an open source programming language that is designed to scale and support concurrency at the language level. This gives you the liberty to write large concurrent web applications with ease. From creating web application to deploying them on Amazon Cloud Services, this book will be your one-stop guide to learn web development in Go. The Go Web Development Cookbook teaches you how to create REST services, write microservices, and deploy Go Docker containers. Whether you are new to programming or a professional developer, this book will help get you up to speed with web development in Go. We will focus on writing modular code in Go; in-depth informative examples build the base, one step at a time. You will learn how to create a server, work with static files, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Beego. You will also learn how to create and secure REST services, and create and deploy Go web application and Go Docker containers on Amazon Cloud Services. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply the skills you've gained in Go to create and explore web applications in any domain.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating your first EC2 instance to run a Go web application

Creating an EC2 instance on AWS is the same as getting a new machine and installing the required software to run a web application. In this recipe, we will create an EC2 instance, provision it, and run a simple Go web application.

Getting ready...

To start with the creating and deploying on an AWS EC2 instance, firstly, you have to create and activate an AWS account. Because this is out of context for this recipe, we will not be doing it here.

A well-explained process you can follow to create and activate an AWS account is available at https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/

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