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Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Cloud Native Programming with Golang: Develop microservice-based high performance web apps for the cloud with Go

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Cloud Native Programming with Golang

Building Microservices Using Rest APIs

In this chapter, we'll go on a journey to learn about the world of microservices. We'll learn about how they are structured, how they communicate, and how they persist data. The concept of microservices is a key concept to cover due to the fact that most of the modern cloud applications in production today rely on microservices to achieve resiliency and scalability.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics :

  • Deep diving into the microservices architecture
  • RESTful web APIs
  • Building RESTful APIs in the Go language

The background

We provided a practical definition for microservices in the first chapter. In this chapter, let's define microservices a bit more.

To fully appreciate microservices, let's start by telling the story of their rise. Before the idea of microservices became popular, most applications used to be monolithic. A monolithic application is a single application that tries to get numerous tasks accomplished at once. Then, as new features are needed, the application will get bigger and bulkier. This, in effect, produced unmaintainable applications in the long run. With the emergence of cloud computing, and distributed applications with massive loads, the need for a more flexible application architecture became obvious.

In Chapter 1, Modern Microservice Architectures, we provided an introduction to the MyEvents application, which we will be expecting to build in this...

RESTful Web APIs

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST is simply a way for different services to communicate and exchange data. The core of the REST architecture consists of a client and a server. The server listens for incoming messages, then replies to it, whereas the client starts the connection, then sends messages to the server.

In the modern web programming world, RESTful web applications use the HTTP protocol for communication. The RESTful client would be an HTTP client, and the RESTful server would be the HTTP server. The HTTP protocol is the key application layer communication protocol that powers the internet, which is why RESTful applications can also be called web applications. The communication layer of the RESTful applications is often simply referred as RESTful APIs.

REST APIs allow applications developed in various types of platforms to communicate...

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a wide range of topics regarding designing and building modern microservices. You now should have practical knowledge regarding RESTful web APIs, NoSQL data stores like MongoDB, and proper Go design patterns for scalable code.

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Key benefits

  • Build well-designed and secure microservices. Enrich your microservices with continous integration and monitoring.
  • Containerize your application with Docker
  • Deploy your application to AWS. Learn how to utilize the powerful AWS services from within your application

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Awarded as one of the best books of all time by BookAuthority, Cloud Native Programming with Golang will take you on a journey into the world of microservices and cloud computing with the help of Go. Cloud computing and microservices are two very important concepts in modern software architecture. They represent key skills that ambitious software engineers need to acquire in order to design and build software applications capable of performing and scaling. Go is a modern cross-platform programming language that is very powerful yet simple; it is an excellent choice for microservices and cloud applications. Go is gaining more and more popularity, and becoming a very attractive skill. This book starts by covering the software architectural patterns of cloud applications, as well as practical concepts regarding how to scale, distribute, and deploy those applications. You will also learn how to build a JavaScript-based front-end for your application, using TypeScript and React. From there, we dive into commercial cloud offerings by covering AWS. Finally, we conclude our book by providing some overviews of other concepts and technologies that you can explore, to move from where the book leaves off.

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers who want to begin building secure, resilient, robust, and scalable Go applications that are cloud native. Some knowledge of the Go programming language should be sufficient.To build the front-end application, you will also need some knowledge of JavaScript programming.

What you will learn

  • Understand modern software applications architectures
  • Build secure microservices that can effectively communicate with other services
  • Get to know about event-driven architectures by diving into message queues such as Kafka, Rabbitmq, and AWS SQS.
  • Understand key modern database technologies such as MongoDB, and Amazon's DynamoDB
  • Leverage the power of containers
  • Explore Amazon cloud services fundamentals
  • Know how to utilize the power of the Go language to access key services in the Amazon cloud such as S3, SQS, DynamoDB and more.
  • Build front-end applications using ReactJS with Go
  • Implement CD for modern applications
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Modern Microservice Architectures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building Microservices Using Rest APIs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Securing Microservices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Asynchronous Microservice Architectures Using Message Queues Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building a Frontend with React Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deploying Your Application in Containers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
AWS I – Fundamentals, AWS SDK for Go, and EC2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Frouin Florian Feb 15, 2018
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Je suis encore en lecture mais ce livre est un véritable combo de techno et aborde clairement l'articulation entre chacune d'entre elles.Affaire à suivre, je viendrai certainement compléter ce commentaire en fin de lecture.
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Falcarius Feb 24, 2019
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The book is generally well written and helpful. It uses a "real live" project to explain how modern modern software development in a microservices architecture works. In addition to Golang, the book uses a state-of-the-art tech stack (MongoDB and DynamoDB, RabbitMQ and Kafka, ...) and DevOps approach (Docker, AWS, ...). I would consider myself on a beginner to intermediate level regarding Golang and could understand everything in the book without problems. However, as the book progresses, there are more and more mistakes in the listings. With growing complexity of the software, this becomes very confusing when comparing the text/listings in the book with the (mostly correct) code download from github. Also, in some places, the book would profit from a bit more background and outlook (e.g. structs are used as containers, but have only 1 variable in them...other variables are added in later sections of the book, but this is not mentioned and thus the motivation for using the struct remains unclear at first). All in all, I can recommend the book to those who want a good "full stack" introduction and overview into building a very modern web app.
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Just finished the third chapter, it's good so far. It's not for complete beginners, but still it includes some much appreciated golang features refreshers.I've read comments complaining about the code, well, if you are not a complete beginner you'll figure it out pretty easily.So far it's a 5 stars for me, I'll update my note later...-- UPDATE --I read 80% of the book.Many mistakes in the code (that, we already knew), but also some bad practices in the architecture. But again, you'll spot them if you are not a complete beginner and read the book with a critical mind.I've seen no tests so far, and it's not covering at all the subscription and authentication of user, which I think is pretty important. No mention of caches like Redis either, ...Also the book needs an update on the tool used. Not using go mods, for example.
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Not as per expected.Just the copy of examples
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