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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go

You're reading from   Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go Develop elegant RESTful APIs with Golang for microservices and the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643577
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Naren Yellavula Naren Yellavula
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Preface 1. Getting Started with REST API Development 2. Handling Routing for our REST Services FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Middleware and RPC 4. Simplifying RESTful Services with Popular Go Frameworks 5. Working with MongoDB and Go to Create a REST API 6. Working with Protocol Buffers and gRPC 7. Working with PostgreSQL, JSON, and Go 8. Building a REST API Client in Go 9. Asynchronous API Design 10. GraphQL and Go 11. Scaling our REST API Using Microservices 12. Containerizing REST Services for Deployment 13. Deploying REST Services on Amazon Web Services 14. Handling Authentication for our REST Services 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding sync/async API requests

A synchronous request is an HTTP request that blocks the server until the response is returned. The majority of the services on the web run in this fashion. Nowadays, with the advent of distributed systems and loose coupling, API requests can also be asynchronous. In other words, an asynchronous request returns with information that can be used to fetch the information of a process. These asynchronous requests on a server are closely related to how concurrently the server can execute a job for multiple clients. Let's look at what a synchronous request looks like:

In this type of request, the web server performs all the actions and returns an Immediate Response to the Web client/Mobile client. The drawback of this approach is that if the server takes too much time to render the result, the client is blocked on the server's action...

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