Cloud Native Go: Building Reliable Services in Unreliable Environments

by Matthew A. Titmus

What do Docker, Kubernetes, and Prometheus have in common? All of these cloud native technologies are written in the Go programming language. This practical book shows you how to use Go's strengths to develop cloud native services that are scalable and resilient, even in an unpredictable environment. You'll explore the composition and construction of these applications, from lower-level features of Go to mid-level design patterns to high-level architectural considerations.

Each chapter builds on the lessons of the last, walking intermediate to advanced developers through Go to construct a simple but fully featured distributed key-value store. You'll learn best practices for adopting Go as your development language for solving cloud native management and deployment issues.

Learn how cloud native applications differ from other software architecturesUnderstand how Go can solve the challenges of designing scalable distributed servicesLeverage Go's lower-level features, such as channels and goroutines, to implement a reliable cloud native serviceExplore what "service reliability" is and what it has to do with cloud nativeApply a variety of patterns, abstractions, and tooling to build and manage complex distributed systems

Genres: Programming, Go, Technology, Computer Science, Software, Technical, Nonfiction

438 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2021

About the author

Matthew Titmus is an academic refugee and veteran of the software development industry who can currently be found serving as an SRE technical lead at Flatiron Health in New York. He's an organizer for the DevOpsDays NYC Conference, the founder of NYC CoffeeOps, and the author of Cloud Native Go (coming this May from O'Reilly Media).

Since teaching himself to build virtual worlds in LPC, he's earned a surprisingly-relevant degree in molecular biology, written tools to analyze terabyte-sized datasets at a high energy physics laboratory, developed an early web development framework from scratch, wielded distributed computing techniques to analyze cancer genomes, and pioneered machine learning techniques for linked data. He was an early adopter and advocate of both cloud-native technologies in general and the Go language in particular.

Matthew has above average handwriting. His hobbies include spontaneous human combustion, collecting dirt, and cold logic. His turnoffs include time, object permanence, barium, and four out of five dentists. He lives on Long Island with the world's most patient woman, to whom he is lucky to be married, and the world's most adorable boy, by whom he is lucky to be called dad.

Reviews

[Vojtech Podhajsky · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of a Go jerk, listing only the pros and skipping the cons. Nonetheless, it is a good reference.

[Giorgio Cerruti · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read this book and it's the best cloud native book in the market IMHO

[Kris · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn’t finish

[Dahlton Lindquist · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read!

Some things in the later chapters could use some updating, yet that’s just the nature of technology moving so fast.