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.Go Programming Blueprints

You're reading from   .Go Programming Blueprints Build real-world, production-ready solutions in Go using cutting-edge technology and techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468949
Length 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mat Ryer Mat Ryer
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chat Application with Web Sockets 2. Adding User Accounts FREE CHAPTER 3. Three Ways to Implement Profile Pictures 4. Command-Line Tools to Find Domain Names 5. Building Distributed Systems and Working with Flexible Data 6. Exposing Data and Functionality through a RESTful Data Web Service API 7. Random Recommendations Web Service 8. Filesystem Backup 9. Building a Q&A Application for Google App Engine 10. Micro-services in Go with the Go kit Framework 11. Deploying Go Applications Using Docker Appendix. Good Practices for a Stable Go Environment

Rate limiting with service middleware

Now that we have built a complete service, we are going to see how easy it is to add middleware to our endpoints in order to extend the service without touching the actual implementations themselves.

In real-world services, it is sensible to limit the number of requests it will attempt to handle so that the service doesn't get overwhelmed. This can happen if the process needs more memory than is available, or we might notice performance degradation if it eats up too much of the CPU. In a micro-service architecture, the strategy to solving these problems is to add another node and spread the load, which means that we want each individual instance to be rate limited.

Since we are providing the client, we should add rate limiting there, which would prevent too many requests from getting on the network. But it is also sensible to add rate limiting to the server in case many clients are trying to access the same services at the same time. Luckily, endpoints...

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