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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Document feeder – the REST API endpoint

The main aim of /api/feeder is to receive documents to be indexed, process them, and forward the processed data to Librarian to be added to the index. This means we need to accurately process the document. But what do we mean by "processing a document?"

It can be defined as the following set of consecutive tasks:

  1. We rely on the payload to provide us with a title and link to the document. We download the linked document and use it in our index.
  1. The document can be thought of as one big blob of text, and it is possible that we might have multiple documents with the same title. We need to be able to identify each document uniquely and also be able to easily retrieve them.
  1. The result of a search query expects the provided words to be present in the document. This means we need to extract all words from a document and also...
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