In this chapter, we gave an introduction to the REST API. We saw that REST is not a protocol, but an architectural pattern. HTTP is the actual protocol on which we can implement our REST service. We jumped into the fundamentals of the REST API to be clear about what they actually are. Then we explored types of web services. Before REST, we had something called SOAP, which used XML as its data format. REST operates on JSON as its primary format. REST has verbs and status codes. We saw what these status codes refer to.
We designed and implemented a simple service that finds the fastest mirror site to download OS images from all Debian mirror sites hosted worldwide. In this process, we also saw how to package a Go project into a binary. We understood the GOPATH environment variable, which is a workspace definition in Go. We now know that all packages and projects reside on...
