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Building RESTful Web services with Go

You're reading from   Building RESTful Web services with Go Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294287
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Naren Yellavula Naren Yellavula
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Preface 1. Getting Started with REST API Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Handling Routing for Our REST Services 3. Working with Middleware and RPC 4. Simplifying RESTful Services with Popular Go Frameworks 5. Working with MongoDB and Go to Create REST APIs 6. Working with Protocol Buffers and GRPC 7. Working with PostgreSQL, JSON, and Go 8. Building a REST API Client in Go and Unit Testing 9. Scaling Our REST API Using Microservices 10. Deploying Our REST services 11. Using an API Gateway to Monitor and Metricize REST API 12. Handling Authentication for Our REST Services

Persisting client sessions with Redis

The sessions we created until now are stored in the program memory. It means if the program crashes or restarts, all the logged sessions will be lost. It needs the client to re-authenticate once again to get a new session cookie. It can be an annoying thing sometimes. In order to save sessions in some place, we chose Redis. Redis is a key-value storage that is very fast because it lives in primary memory.

The Redis server stores any key-value pairs we supply. It provides basic data types such as strings, lists, hashes, sets, and so on. For more details, visit https://redis.io/topics/data-types. We can install Redis with the following command on Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get install redis-server

On macOS X, we can just say:

brew install redis

For Windows too, binaries are available on the Redis website. Once Redis is installed, we can...

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