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

by Shiju Varghese

Overview

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 provides:

• Fundamentals for building real-world web apps in Go

• Thorough coverage of prerequisites and practical code examples

• Demo web apps for attaining a deeper understanding of web development

• A reference REST API app which can be used to build scalable real-world backend services in Go

• A thorough demonstration of deploying web apps to the Cloud using the Google Cloud platform

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484210536
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/25/2015
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	289
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Shiju Varghese is a solutions architect who specializes in cloud computing solutions and distributed web apps. His current technology focus is on Go, Google Cloud, Azure, and Docker. He has been working with Web technologies since early 2000, and has developed web apps and distributed systems in Go, C#, and Node.js. His areas of interest include cloud solutions architecture, application containers, distributed systems, RESTful microservice architecture, and mobile backend as a service. Shiju has been awarded Microsoft MVP status five times. He is a regular speaker at various technology conferences.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Go

Chapter 2: Go Fundamentals

Chapter 3: User Defined Types and Concurrency

Chapter 4: Getting Started with Web Development

Chapter 5: Working with Go Templates

Chapter 6: HTTP Middleware

Chapter 7: Authentication for Web Apps

Chapter 8: Persistence with MongoDB

Chapter 9: Building RESTful Services

Chapter 10: Testing Go Applications

Chapter 11: Building Go Web Applications on Google Cloud