Chapter 7. Microservices and Communication

Our application is beginning to get a little more real now. In the previous chapter, we added some APIs and client-side interfaces to them.

Microservices have become very hot in the last few years, primarily because they reduce the developmental and support weight of a very large or monolithic application. By breaking apart these monoliths, microservices enable a more agile and concurrent development. They can allow separate teams to work on separate parts of the application without worrying too much about conflicts, backwards compatibility issues, or stepping on the toes of other parts of the application.

In this chapter, we'll introduce microservices and explore how Go can work within them, to enable ...

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