Building Microservices with Go

Your one-stop guide to the common patterns and practices, showing you how to apply these using the Go programming language

Key Features

• This short, concise, and practical guide is packed with real-world examples of building microservices with Go
• It is easy to read and will benefit smaller teams who want to extend the functionality of their existing systems
• Using this practical approach will save your money in terms of maintaining a monolithic architecture and demonstrate capabilities in ease of use

Book Description

What you will learn

• Plan a microservice architecture and design a microservice
• Write a microservice with a RESTful API and a database
• Understand the common idioms and common patterns in microservices architecture
• Leverage tools and automation that helps microservices become horizontally scalable
• Get a grounding in containerization with Docker and Docker-Compose, which will greatly accelerate your development lifecycle
• Manage and secure Microservices at scale with monitoring, logging, service discovery, and automation
• Test microservices and integrate API tests in Go

Who this book is for

You should have a working knowledge of programming in Go, including writing and compiling basic applications. However, no knowledge of RESTful architecture, microservices, or web services is expected. If you are looking to apply techniques to your own projects, taking your first steps into microservice architecture, this book is for you.