Microservices with Go: Building Scalable and Reliable Go Microservices

Mastering the art of Go microservice development
Key Features

Helps to create and organize well-structured Go microservices
Provides industry best practices and insights on Go microservice development tools, patterns, and solutions
Covers hands-on Golang examples in each chapter

Book Description

This book is covering the key benefits and common issues of microservices, helping the readers to understand which problems microservice architecture helps to solve and which issues it usually introduces.

The chapter highlights the importance of using the right principles and standards in order to achieve the key benefits of microservice architecture, emphasizing the role of the Go programming language as one of the most popular languages for microservice development and laying down the foundation for the next chapters of the book. The foundational aspects of Go microservice development include service scaffolding, service discovery, data serialization, synchronous and asynchronous communication, deployment, and orchestration and testing. The part is primarily focusing on the development aspects while the following part is covering maintenance and reliability topics. The last part is covering more advanced topics of Go microservice development including system reliability, observability, maintainability, and scalability.

The part includes lots of best practices and examples which illustrate how to apply the key ideas to the existing applications, using two applications scaffolded in the previous part as examples.
What you will learn

Learn to build scalable and reliable Go microservices
Get familiar with the industry’s best practices and solutions in microservice development
Learn the advanced microservice reliability techniques
Understand service discovery in the microservices environment
Explore reliability and observability principles

Who This Book Is For

This book is for all types of developers: from people interested in learning how to write microservices and applications in Go to seasoned professionals who want to take the next step in mastering the art of writing scalable and reliable microservice-based systems.
Table of Contents

Introduction to microservices
Scaffolding a Go microservice
Service discovery
Serialization
Synchronous communication
Asynchronous communication
Deployment and orchestration
Unit and Integration Testing
Reliability overview
Observability
Setting up Service Alerting
Advanced Topics