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Building Microservices in Go

by Mike Van Sickle

Go has established itself as an ideal language for many companies to create suites of small, purpose built web services known as microservices. This course will teach you everything you need to know to get started creating your own microservices with the Go language.

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What you'll learn

Many companies are turning to the Go language as an efficient, productive choice for the creation of microservices. In this course, Building Microservices in Go, you’ll learn to create services with a wide range of capabilities. First, you’ll explore the basics of creating HTTP services. Next, you’ll discover how to route requests in your services to the proper handler. Finally, you’ll learn how to transfer messages between your services using JSON and gRPC. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Go’s HTTP features needed to create full-featured web services.

Table of contents

Course Overview
1min
Introduction
18mins
Creating HTTP Servers
39mins
Serving Static Content
21mins
JSON Messaging
32mins
Routing Requests
46mins
Creating Middleware
33mins
gRPC Messaging
41mins

About the author

Mike Van Sickle

Michael Van Sickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He started his career as a mechanical engineer, designing components for the automotive industry, before changing to software engineering. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and is comfortable working in Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and F#. Mike also loves learning about user experience design and is taking a lead role in his company's attempt to make applications that are elegant and simple. When he i... more

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