Chapter 6: Scaling a Gin Application
In this chapter, you will learn how to improve the performance and scalability of a distributed web application written with the Gin framework. This chapter will cover how to use caching mechanisms to alleviate performance bottlenecks. Along the way, you will learn how to scale a web app using a message broker solution such as RabbitMQ. Finally, you will learn how to containerize the application and scale it out with Docker Compose.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Scaling workloads with a message broker
- Scaling horizontally with Docker replicas
- Using the Nginx reverse proxy
- Caching assets with HTTP cache headers
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to build a highly available and distributed web application with the Gin framework, Docker, and RabbitMQ.