Web Development with Go: Building Scalable Web Apps and RESTful Services

by Shiju Varghese

Take a deep dive into web development using the Go programming language to build web apps and RESTful services to create reliable and efficient software. Web Development with Go provides Go language fundamentals and then moves on to advanced web development concepts and successful deployment of Go web apps to the cloud. Web Development with Go will teach you how to develop scalable real-world web apps, RESTful services, and backend systems with Go. The book starts off by covering Go programming language fundamentals as a prerequisite for web development. After a thorough understanding of the basics, the book delves into web development using the built-in package, net/http. With each chapter you’ll be introduced to new concepts for gradually building a real-world web system. The book further shows you how to integrate Go with other technologies. For example, it provides an overview of using MongoDB as a means of persistent storage, and provides an end-to-end REST API sample as well. The book then moves on to demonstrate how to deploy web apps to the cloud using the Google Cloud platform. Web Development with Go Go is a high-performance language while providing greater level of developer productivity, therefore Web Development with Go equips you with the necessary skills and knowledge required for effectively building robust and efficient web apps by leveraging the features of Go.

Genres: Computer Science, Technology

309 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2015

About the author

Shiju Varghese is a technology architect, consultant, published author and speaker. He is focused on building highly scalable cloud-native distributed systems in Go programming language.

Shiju has authored two books on Go programming language, titled "Web Development with Go" and "Go Recipes", both published by Apress. He is an early adopter of Go, and has been providing consulting and training for building backend systems and microservices with Go ecosystem.

Reviews

[Kaido · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for learning Golang. Our company is moving towards microservices architecture and we need some simple language to write easaly web apis. Go is suitable for this and Shiju has done great job to write and explain step-by-step how to achieve this. For me, the greatest value was provided by the authentication chapter. Usually, if you read some blog in web, they stop in the same place -- in the place where things go serious and you have to start authenticate and validate access to your API endpoints.
We can say that some things were not well described and some things were outdated, but if you have done some development then it wasn't hard to google and get things to work. Also Shijus Github page helped a lot to follow the book and experimenting with the code.