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Microservices with Go

You're reading from Microservices with Go The expert's guide to building secure, scalable, and reliable microservices with Go

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836207337

Length 428 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Go Micro

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Alexander Shuiskov

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Introduction to Microservices FREE CHAPTER

3. Foundation

4. Scaffolding a Go Microservice

5. Service Discovery

6. Serialization

7. Synchronous Communication

8. Asynchronous Communication

9. Storing Service Data

10. Setting Up Service Deployments

11. Unit and Integration Testing

12. Security and Compliance

13. Maintenance

14. Reliability Overview

15. Collecting Service Telemetry Data

16. Setting Up Service Alerting

17. Performance Monitoring

18. Advanced Topics

19. Implementing Distributed System Scenarios

20. Advanced Topics

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Preparing application code for deployments

In this section, we are going to provide a high-level overview of a service deployment process and describe the actions required to prepare your microservices for deployments. You will learn how to configure Go microservices for running in different environments, how to build them for different operating systems, and some other tips for preparing your microservices for remote execution.

Let’s proceed to the basics of the deployment process.

Deployment basics

As we mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, deployments allow you to run and update your applications on one or multiple servers. Such servers are usually located remotely (on clouds or dedicated web hosting) and run all the time to allow your applications to serve the request or process data 24/7.

The deployment process for each environment usually consists of multiple steps. The steps include the following:

Build: Build the service by compiling...

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Authors (1)

Alexander Shuiskov

Alexander Shuiskov

Alexander Shuiskov is an independent researcher and software expert specializing in distributed systems, microservices, and observability. He has worked at major tech companies, including Uber, Booking(dot)com and eBay, where he helped solve large-scale infrastructure challenges, as well as establish reliability and monitoring of thousands of microservices.

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