Cloud Native programming with Golang

Discover practical techniques to build cloud-native apps that are scalable, reliable, and always available.

Key Features

• Build well-designed and secure microservices. Enrich your microservices with continous integration and monitoring.
• Containerize your application with Docker
• Deploy your application to AWS. Learn how to utilize the powerful AWS services from within your application

Book Description

Cloud computing and microservices are two very important concepts in modern software architecture. They represent key skills that ambitious software engineers need to acquire in order to design and build software applications capable of performing and scaling. Go is a modern cross-platform programming language that is very powerful yet simple; it is an excellent choice for microservices and cloud applications. Go is gaining more and more popularity, and becoming a very attractive skill..

The book will take you on a journey into the world of microservices and cloud computing with the help of Go. It will start by covering the software architectural patterns of cloud applications, as well as practical concepts regarding how to scale, distribute, and deploy those applications. You will also learn how to build a JavaScript-based front-end for your application, using TypeScript and React.

From there, we dive into commercial cloud offerings by covering AWS. Finally, we conclude our book by providing some overviews of other concepts and technologies that the reader can explore to move from where the book leaves off.

What you will learn

• Understand modern software applications architectures
• Build secure microservices that can effectively communicate with other services
• Get to know about event-driven architectures by diving into message queues such as Kafka, Rabbitmq, and AWS SQS.
• Understand key modern database technologies such as MongoDB, and Amazon's DynamoDB
• Leverage the power of containers
• Explore Amazon cloud services fundamentals
• Know how to utilize the power of the Go language to access key services in the Amazon cloud such as S3, SQS, DynamoDB and more.
• Build front-end applications using ReactJS with Go
• Implement CD for modern applications

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who want to begin building secure, resilient, robust, and scalable Go applications that are cloud native. Some knowledge of the Go programming language should be sufficient.To build the front-end application, you will also need some knowledge of JavaScript programming.

Table of Contents

1. Modern Microservice Architectures
2. Building Microservices using Rest APIs
3. Securing Microservices
4. Asynchronous Microservice Architectures Using Message Queues
5. Building a Frontend with React
6. Deploying Your Application in Containers
7. AWS
8. AWS- II
9. Continuous Delivery
10. Monitoring
11. Migration
12. Where to go from here

Mina Andrawos is an experienced engineer who has developed deep experience in Go from using it personally and professionally. He regularly authors articles and tutorials about the language, and also shares Go's open source projects. He has written numerous Go applications with varying degrees of complexity.

Other than Go, he has skills in Java, C#, Python, and C++. He has worked with various databases and software architectures. He is also skilled with the agile methodology for software development. Besides software development, he has working experience of scrum mastering, sales engineering, and software product management.

For Nabil, Mervat, Catherine, and Fady.

Thanks to all my family for their amazing support, and continuous encouragement.

Martin Helmich studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück and lives in Rahden, Germany. He works as a software architect, specializing in building distributed applications using web technologies and Microservice Architectures. Besides programming in Go, PHP, Python, and Node.js, he also builds infrastructures using configuration management tools such as SaltStack and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

He is an Open Source enthusiast and likes to make fun of people who are not using Linux. In his free time, you'll probably find him coding on one of his open source pet projects, listening to music, or reading science-fiction literature.