Introduction to industry REST microservices in Golang (Go)

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• Install, configure and setup Go
• Analysis and design of REST microservices.
• Different architectures and patterns for implementing them in Go.
• Test as you Go. Ensure the quality of your work.
• Advanced concurrency patterns.
• Parallel execution on Multi-Core VMs.
• HTTP frameworks, comparison and appliance.

Syllabus :

1. Package organization - Applying MVC

• Introduction to MVC
• Package organization
• Pushing our changes to Git and first PR

 

2. Testing in go

• Introduction to testing
• Unit tests
• Benchmarks
• How to structure Go artifacts and mock

 

3. Consuming external APIs

• HTTP Frameworks
• Analyzing our target APIs.
• Defining our domain structs
• REST Api Calls - Native HTTP client
• Testing: Mocking native REST Api calls.
• Putting all together
• Testing: Unit & Integration tests

 

4. From linear to concurrent

• Concurrency is NOT parallelism
• Implementation of concurrent API calls
• Testing concurrent models
• How to limit concurrency
• Calculate the shipping box
• How to use Mutex

 

5. Logging system

• Introduction to logging systems
• Log library - logrus
• Log library - zap

 

6. Final chapter

• Infrastructure design for your microservices
• Creating an OAuth authentication microservice
• Mocking entire layers of the application

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