Go: Building Web Applications

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at experimenting with utilizing microservices as a way to dissect your app into separate domains of responsibility. In this example, we delegated the e-mail aspect of our application to another service written in Python.

We did this to utilize the concept of microservices or interconnected smaller applications as callable networked functions. This ethos is driving a large part of the Web of late and has myriad benefits and drawbacks.

In doing this, we implemented a message queue, which operates as the backbone of our communications system, allowing each component to speak to the other in a reliable and repeatable way. In this case, we used a Python application to read messages sent from our Go application across ...