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Building RESTful Web services with Go. Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully

Building RESTful Web services with Go. Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully

Naren Yellavula

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REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services and in today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Go, makes it a breeze for developers to work with it to build robust Web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages a framework like Gin
to implement these services.

The book starts with a brief introduction to REST API development and how it transformed the modern web. You will learn how to handle routing and authentication of web services along with working with middleware for internal service. The book explains how to use Go frameworks to build RESTful web services and work with MongoDB to create REST API. You will learn how to integrate Postgres SQL and JSON with a Go web service and build a client library in Go for consuming REST API. You will learn how to scale APIs using the microservice architecture and deploy the REST APIs using Nginx as a proxy server. Finally you will learn how to metricize a REST API using an API Gateway.

By the end of the book you will be proficient in building RESTful APIs in Go.
  • 1. Getting started with the REST API development
  • 2. Handling Routing for our REST services
  • 3. Working with Middleware & RPC
  • 4. Simplifying RESTFul Services with popular Go frameworks
  • 5. Working with MongoDB and Go to create REST API
  • 6. Working with Protocol Buffers
  • 7. Working with PostgreSQL, JSON and Go
  • 8. Building a REST API client in Go & Unit testing API
  • 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
  • Title: Building RESTful Web services with Go. Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully
  • Author: Naren Yellavula
  • Original title: Building RESTful Web services with Go. Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully
  • ISBN: 9781788291088, 9781788291088
  • Date of issue: 2017-12-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15ur
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing