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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

Exploring CI/CD practices

In the previous chapters, you learned how to design, build, and deploy a Gin web application on AWS. Currently, deploying new changes can be a time-consuming process. When deploying to an EC2 instance, Kubernetes, or Platform as a Service (PaaS), there are manual steps involved that help the new changes be pushed out of the door.

Luckily, many of these deployment steps can be automated, thus saving development time, removing possibilities for human errors, and reducing release cycle times. That's why in this section, you will learn how to embrace continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD) and continuous delivery to accelerate the time to market (TTM) of your application, as well as to ensure high-quality features shipment through each iteration. But first, what do these practices mean?

Continuous integration

Continuous integration (CI) is the process of having a centralized code repository (for example, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab...

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