Delinkcious is a Delicious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)) wannabe. Delicious used to be an internet hit that managed links for users. It was acquired by Yahoo, was bounced around, and sold multiple times. It was eventually purchased by Pinboard, which runs a similar service and intends to shut down Delicious soon.
Delinkcious allows users store URLs in cool places on the web, tag them, and query them in various ways. Throughout this book, Delinkcious will serve as a live lab to demonstrate many microservices and Kubernetes concepts, as well as features in the context of a real-world application. The focus will be on the backend, so there will be no snazzy frontend web application or mobile app. I'll leave those as the dreaded exercise for you.
In this chapter, we will understand why I chose Go as the programming language...
