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Building RESTful Web services with Go

You're reading from Building RESTful Web services with Go Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788294287

Length 316 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Buffalo

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Naren Yellavula

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with REST API Development FREE CHAPTER

2. Handling Routing for Our REST Services

3. Working with Middleware and RPC

4. Simplifying RESTful Services with Popular Go Frameworks

5. Working with MongoDB and Go to Create REST APIs

6. Working with Protocol Buffers and GRPC

7. Working with PostgreSQL, JSON, and Go

8. Building a REST API Client in Go and Unit Testing

9. Scaling Our REST API Using Microservices

10. Deploying Our REST services

11. Using an API Gateway to Monitor and Metricize REST API

12. Handling Authentication for Our REST Services

Getting the code

You can download the code for this chapter from https://github.com/narenaryan/gorestful/tree/master/chapter2. Feel free to add the comments and pull requests. Clone the code and use the code samples in the chapter2 directory.

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Authors (1)

Yellavula

Yellavula

Naren Yellavula, known in the developer community as Naren Arya, started his programming career in a somewhat surprising manner. He ditched mechanical engineering in favor of computer science after watching The Matrix for the first time. With domain expertise in cloud telephony and e-commerce, Naren has a total of 6 years' professional experience and 10 years of programming experience. His articles on open source have been read over a million times worldwide. Naren has spoken at the PyCon India conference on two occasions. He currently works as a software engineer, building microservices for Tradebyte Software GmbH (a Zalando enterprise). In his spare time, he travels to new places. He also loves reading – nonfiction most of the time, and Victorian and Russian fiction on occasion.

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