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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838643577

Length 404 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Microservices

Author (1):

Naren Yellavula

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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Discussing PostgreSQL installation options

PostgreSQL is an open source database that can be installed on multiple platforms. There are two standard options to install PostgreSQL:

Manual server installation on a machine
Installation in a Docker container

Manual installation on an operating system can be a universal installation. You can find instructions for installation at this official PostgreSQL link: https://www.postgresql.org/download/.

For MacOS X and Windows, you get straightforward installers. For the varieties of Linux, the PostgreSQL website has nice documentation with detailed instructions. The only drawback with universal installation is you are bound to install/uninstall the PostgreSQL database whenever you change the version. In container-based systems, the execution environment is isolated from the host system. Docker is one such popular container system. In...

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Authors (1)

Yellavula

Naren Yellavula, known in the developer community as Naren Arya, started his programming career in a somewhat surprising manner. He ditched mechanical engineering in favor of computer science after watching The Matrix for the first time. With domain expertise in cloud telephony and e-commerce, Naren has a total of 6 years' professional experience and 10 years of programming experience. His articles on open source have been read over a million times worldwide. Naren has spoken at the PyCon India conference on two occasions. He currently works as a software engineer, building microservices for Tradebyte Software GmbH (a Zalando enterprise). In his spare time, he travels to new places. He also loves reading – nonfiction most of the time, and Victorian and Russian fiction on occasion.

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