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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):

Yellavula

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

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

Summary

In this chapter, we tried to build a Metro Rail API with the help of a few web frameworks available in Go. The most popular ones are go-restful, Gin Gonic, and Revel.go. We started by learning our first database integration in our Go applications. We chose SQLite3 and tried to write a sample application using the go-sqlite3 library.

Next, we explored go-restful and looked in detail at how to create routes and handlers. go-restful has the concept of building APIs on top of resources. It provides an intuitive way of creating APIs that can consume and produce various formats such as XML and JSON. We used the train as a resource and built an API that performs CRUD operations on the database. We explained why go-restful is lightweight and can be used to create low latency APIs. Next, we saw the Gin framework and tried to repeat the same API, but created an API around the station resource. We saw how to store time in the SQL database time field. We suggested Gin for quickly prototyping...

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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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