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Microservices with Go

You're reading from   Microservices with Go Building scalable and reliable microservices with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617007
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Shuiskov Alexander Shuiskov
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Microservices FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2: Foundation
4. Chapter 2: Scaffolding a Go Microservice 5. Chapter 3: Service Discovery 6. Chapter 4: Serialization 7. Chapter 5: Synchronous Communication 8. Chapter 6: Asynchronous Communication 9. Chapter 7: Storing Service Data 10. Chapter 8: Deployment with Kubernetes 11. Chapter 9: Unit and Integration Testing 12. Part 3: Maintenance
13. Chapter 10: Reliability Overview 14. Chapter 11: Collecting Service Telemetry Data 15. Chapter 12: Setting Up Service Alerting 16. Chapter 13: Advanced Topics 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Synchronous Communication

In this chapter, we are going to cover the most common way of communicating between microservices – synchronous communication. In Chapter 2, we already implemented the logic for communicating between microservices via the HTTP protocol and returning results in JSON format. In Chapter 4, we illustrated that the JSON format is not the most efficient in terms of data size, and there are many different formats providing additional benefits to developers, including code generation. In this chapter, we are going to show you how to define service APIs using Protocol Buffers and generate both client and server code for them.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand the key concepts of synchronous communication between microservices and will have learned how to implement microservice clients and servers.

The knowledge you gain in this chapter will help you to learn how to better organize the client and server code, generate the code for serialization...

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