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Microservices with Go

You're reading from   Microservices with Go Building scalable and reliable microservices with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804617007
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Shuiskov Alexander Shuiskov
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Microservices FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2: Foundation
4. Chapter 2: Scaffolding a Go Microservice 5. Chapter 3: Service Discovery 6. Chapter 4: Serialization 7. Chapter 5: Synchronous Communication 8. Chapter 6: Asynchronous Communication 9. Chapter 7: Storing Service Data 10. Chapter 8: Deployment with Kubernetes 11. Chapter 9: Unit and Integration Testing 12. Part 3: Maintenance
13. Chapter 10: Reliability Overview 14. Chapter 11: Collecting Service Telemetry Data 15. Chapter 12: Setting Up Service Alerting 16. Chapter 13: Advanced Topics 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Project structure

The project structure is the foundation of and plays a major role in the readability and maintainability of your code. As we discussed in the previous sections, in Go projects, the structure may play a more important role than in other languages, because each exported name generally includes the name of its package. This requires you to have good and descriptive naming for your packages and directories, as well as the right hierarchy of your code.

While the official guidelines define some strong recommendations for naming and coding styles there aren’t that many rules constraining the Go project structure. Each project is unique by its nature, and developers are generally free to choose the way they organize the code. However, there are some common practices and specifics of Go package organization that we are going to cover in this section.

Private packages

In Go, all code stored inside a directory called internal can be imported and used only by...

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