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Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang

You're reading from   Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang Design and architect highly scalable and robust applications using Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622592
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jyotiswarup Raiturkar Jyotiswarup Raiturkar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building Big with Go FREE CHAPTER 2. Packaging Code 3. Design Patterns 4. Scaling Applications 5. Going Distributed 6. Messaging 7. Building APIs 8. Modeling Data 9. Anti-Fragile Systems 10. Case Study – Travel Website 11. Planning for Deployment 12. Migrating Applications 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Go kit

In the Java/Scala ecosystem, there are a lot of frameworks that help in building API-based solutions. Examples include the Netflix OSS stack and the Twitter Finangle. Go kit (https://gokit.io/) is a collection of packages that together give a slightly opinionated framework for quickly building a service-oriented architecture.

Go kit enforces separation of concerns through a decorator design pattern. It is organized in three main layers (with some sub-layers):

  • Transport layer
  • Endpoint layer
  • Service layer

This is shown in the following diagram:

Reference: http://gokit.io/faq/#introduction-mdash-understanding-go-kit-key-concepts

The transport layer defines the bindings and implements protocol specifics of various transports such as HTTP and gRPC (Google RPC).

The innermost service layer is where the business logic is implemented in a transport-agnostic fashion. Reminiscent...

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