learn-go

This is a playground for learning microservices in GO.

# GET
curl http://localhost:9090 | jq # ping server and display formatted json

# POST
curl http://localhost:9090 -d "{...}" | jq

# PUT
curl -v http://localhost:9090/1 -XPUT -d '{...}' | jq

Contents

The contents of this repo come from Nic Jackson's Building Microservices in Go YouTube series. The concepts below are covered in the full 21 part series.

• Introduction to microservices
• RESTFul microservices
• gRPC microservices
• Packaging applications with Docker
• Testing microservice
• Continuous Delivery
• Observability
• Using Kubernetes
• Debugging
• Security
• Asynchronous microservices
• Caching
• Microservice reliability using a Service Mesh

Tech

Below are the tools and technologies covered in the course.

Tag	Description
net/http	Package http provides HTTP client and server implementations.
Gorilla	Package gorilla/mux implements a request router and dispatcher for matching incoming requests to their respective handler.
Package Validator	Package validator implements value validations for structs and individual fields based on tags.
goswagger	Goswagger autogenerates documentation for Go APIs.
Redoc	Redoc is a OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference.