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Building Microservices with Go

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781786468666

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Microservices

Author (1):

Jackson

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to Microservices FREE CHAPTER

2. Designing a Great API

3. Introducing Docker

4. Testing

5. Common Patterns

6. Microservice Frameworks

7. Logging and Monitoring

8. Security

9. Event-Driven Architecture

10. Continuous Delivery

Index

Micro

The first framework we are going to look at is Micro by Asim Aslam. It has been under active development over the last couple of years and has production credentials with its use at the car rental firm, Sixt. Micro is a pluggable RPC microservices framework supporting service discovery, load-balancing, synchronous and asynchronous communication and multiple message encoding formats. For a more in-depth overview of Micro's features and to check out the source code it is hosted on GitHub at the following location: https://github.com/micro/go-micro

Setup

Installation for Micro is easy; well, it is Go so it would be. You do need to install protoc, the application for generating source code which is part of Google's Protocol Buffers package. As a messaging protocol, protobufs are taking off big time and you will find this messaging protocol used in quite a few frameworks we are going to look at in this chapter.

Code generation

The protoc application is used for code generating our Go code...

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Authors (1)

Jackson

Jackson

Nic Jackson is a software engineering evangelist working for notonthehighstreet.com, with over 20 years, experience in software development and leading software development teams. A huge fan of mobile application and microservice architecture, he is constantly looking out for the most efficient way to reuse code and improve development flow. In his spare time, Nic organizes Wild West Tech Talks, a meetup group in West London; coaches and mentors at codebar.io and Coder Dojo; speaks and evangelizes good coding practice, processes, and techniques; and works to raise money for a charity he runs with his wife.

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