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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

Using Redis for caching the API data


Redis is an in-memory database that can store key/value pairs. It best suits the caching use cases where we need to store information temporarily but for huge traffic. For example, sites such as BBC and The Guardian show the latest articles on the dashboard. Their traffic is so high, if documents (articles) are fetched from the database, they need to maintain a huge cluster of databases all the time. Since the given set of articles does not change (at least for hours), the BBC can maintain a cache which saves the articles. When the first customer visits the page, a copy is pulled from the DB, sent to the browser, and placed in the Redis cache. The next time a customer appears, the BBC application server reads content from Redis instead of going to the DB. Since Redis runs in primary memory, latency is reduced. The customer sees his page loaded in a flash. The benchmarks on the web can tell more about how efficiently a site can optimize its contents.

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