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Distributed Computing with Go

You're reading from   Distributed Computing with Go Practical concurrency and parallelism for Go applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125384
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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V.N. Nikhil Anurag V.N. Nikhil Anurag
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Preface 1. Developer Environment for Go 2. Understanding Goroutines FREE CHAPTER 3. Channels and Messages 4. The RESTful Web 5. Introducing Goophr 6. Goophr Concierge 7. Goophr Librarian 8. Deploying Goophr 9. Foundations of Web Scale Architecture 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to make REST calls

Up to this point, we have used the web browser to make HTTP requests. This works for a normal HTTP server or to make simple GET Requests to a REST server. However, the browser will not be able to make other type of REST calls on our behalf.

Most web applications use JavaScript, Ajax, and other frontend technologies to interact with a REST server. However, we do not have to create a full-blown web frontend to interact with a REST server; we can make use of a few tools and also write programs to make REST calls for us.

cURL

cURL is a free command-line tool used to interact over a computer network. It can be used to communicate over multiple protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SCP, and so on. Let&apos...

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