Build a Microservice with Go

1h 40mIntermediate2023-07-21

Authors

Frank P Moley III

Senior Principal Engineer at Catch&Release

Course details

Go has risen as a powerful language selection for programs that rely on concurrency and speed, making it a great option for the development of GRPC- or REST-based web services. Because of its popularity, patterns have arisen that make building web services using Go much easier. These patterns include the two most common abstractions: HTTP request response handling and data access. In this course, software architect and developer Frank Moley guides you through the process of building microservices with Go. Get started in Go by preparing and setting up your environment, project, and clients. Go through the full process of building a service, including multiple challenges and solutions to check your understanding. Plus, learn how to use GORM to read and write data to a database and how to use the Echo middleware framework.

Skills covered

GoSoftware ArchitectureGoogleProgramming LanguagesSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Get going with Go
02 - What you should know

1. Starting with Go

03 - Go for microservices
04 - Prepare your environment
05 - Set up your project
06 - Set up the database client
07 - Set up the echo client
08 - Wire the service

2. Building the Service

09 - GetAll operations
10 - Challenge - GetAll
11 - Solution - GetAll
12 - Create operations
13 - Challenge - Create
14 - Solution - Create
15 - GetOne operations
16 - Challenge - GetOne
17 - Solution - GetOne
18 - Update operations
19 - Challenge - Update
20 - Solution - Update
21 - Delete operations
22 - Challenge - Delete
23 - Solution - Delete

3. Other Topics

24 - Build a Docker image
25 - Middleware
26 - Testing

Conclusion

27 - Next steps