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Building Distributed Applications in Gin

You're reading from   Building Distributed Applications in Gin A hands-on guide for Go developers to build and deploy distributed web apps with the Gin framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801074858
Length 482 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Labouardy Mohamed Labouardy
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Inside the Gin Framework
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Gin FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Distributed Microservices
4. Chapter 2: Setting Up API Endpoints 5. Chapter 3: Managing Data Persistence with MongoDB 6. Chapter 4: Building API Authentication 7. Chapter 5: Serving Static HTML in Gin 8. Chapter 6: Scaling a Gin Application 9. Section 3: Beyond the Basics
10. Chapter 7: Testing Gin HTTP Routes 11. Chapter 8: Deploying the Application on AWS 12. Chapter 9: Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline 13. Chapter 10: Capturing Gin Application Metrics 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running a MongoDB Server

The API we've built so far is not connected to a database. For a real-world application, we need to use a form of data storage; otherwise, data will be lost if the API crashes or the server hosting the API goes down. MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases.

The following schema shows how MongoDB will be integrated into the API architecture:

Figure 3.1 – API architecture

Before we get started, we need to deploy a MongoDB server. There are plenty of deployment options:

Figure 3.2 – MongoDB Community Server

  • You can use the MongoDB as a Service solution, known as MongoDB Atlas (https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas), to run a free 500 MB database on the cloud. You can deploy a fully managed MongoDB server on...
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