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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

By : Naren Yellavula
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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

By: Naren Yellavula

Overview of this book

Building RESTful web services can be tough as there are countless standards and ways to develop API. In modern architectures such as microservices, RESTful APIs are common in communication, making idiomatic and scalable API development crucial. This book covers basic through to advanced API development concepts and supporting tools. You’ll start with an introduction to REST API development before moving on to building the essential blocks for working with Go. You’ll explore routers, middleware, and available open source web development solutions in Go to create robust APIs, and understand the application and database layers to build RESTful web services. You’ll learn various data formats like protocol buffers and JSON, and understand how to serve them over HTTP and gRPC. After covering advanced topics such as asynchronous API design and GraphQL for building scalable web services, you’ll discover how microservices can benefit from REST. You’ll also explore packaging artifacts in the form of containers and understand how to set up an ideal deployment ecosystem for web services. Finally, you’ll cover the provisioning of infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) and secure your REST API. By the end of the book, you’ll have intermediate knowledge of web service development and be able to apply the skills you’ve learned in a practical way.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Working with Middleware and RPC

In this chapter, we are going to look at two new concepts. First, we will learn about middleware, and how can we build one from scratch. Then, we will move to a better middleware solution written by the community, called Gorilla handlers. We will then see the use cases where middleware is helpful. After that, we will learn about developing Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services with Go's internal RPC and JSON-RPC. Then, we will move to an advanced RPC framework called Gorilla HTTP RPC.

The topics we cover in this chapter are as follows:

  • What is middleware?
  • Multiple middleware and chaining
  • Painless middleware chaining with alice
  • Using Gorilla handlers middleware for logging
  • What is RPC?
  • JSON-RPC using Gorilla RPC