In this chapter, we started with the definition of microservices. The main difference between a monolithic application and a microservice is the way a tightly coupled architecture is broken into a loosely coupled architecture.
Microservices talk to each other using either REST-based JSON or RPC-based protocol buffers. Using microservices, we can break business logic into multiple chunks. Each service does one job pretty well. Go has a lightweight framework called Go Micro. Using it, we can create services and clients.
We first created an encryption service using Micro go. We then developed a client for consuming the service. Go Micro also allows asynchronous programming by providing a Publish/Subscribe pattern. Any client/service can subscribe or push events to a topic. It uses an HTTP broker by default but can be easily configured to RabbitMQ or Kafka. Go Micro also provides...
