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Cloud Native Programming with Golang

You're reading from   Cloud Native Programming with Golang Develop microservice-based high performance web apps for the cloud with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125988
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Martin Helmich Martin Helmich
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Preface 1. Modern Microservice Architectures 2. Building Microservices Using Rest APIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Securing Microservices 4. Asynchronous Microservice Architectures Using Message Queues 5. Building a Frontend with React 6. Deploying Your Application in Containers 7. AWS I – Fundamentals, AWS SDK for Go, and EC2 8. AWS II–S3, SQS, API Gateway, and DynamoDB 9. Continuous Delivery 10. Monitoring Your Application 11. Migration 12. Where to Go from Here?

AWS API gateway


The next step in our quest to dive into cloud native applications is to take a tour into the AWS API gateway. As mentioned earlier, the AWS API gateway is a hosted service that allows developers to build flexible APIs for their applications. In this section, we will go through a practical introduction about the service and how it can be used.

Similar to the other services that we have covered so far, we will create an API gateway via the AWS console. The first step, as usual, would be to visit and log in to the AWS console at aws.amazon.com.

The second step would be to go to the home page, and then select API Gateway from under Application Services:

Next, we will need to select API from the left-hand side, then click on Create API. This will start the process of creating a new API to use for our application:

From there, we get to pick a name of our new API, as follows: 

Now, after creating the API, we will need to create mappings between the AWS API gateway, and the addresses...

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