go-microservice

A hands-on attempt to learn microservices using Golang.

Acknowledgement:

This project followed Nic Jackson's Building Microservice with Go tutorial series.

• Nic Jackson's Youtube Playlist
• Nic Jackson's Github Repo

Services

This project consists of the following different services:

Product API ./product-api

Simple Go based JSON API built using the Gorilla framework. The API allows CRUD based operations on a product list.

Frontend website ./frontend

ReactJS website for presenting the Product API information

Product-images ./product-images

Simple Go based file service that can download and upload data and use gzip for file compression

Currency ./currency

gRPC and Go based RPC service to get updated rates of different currencies from European central bank.

Resources:

• Rest API Best Practices
• Go JSON encoding
• Go regexp package
• Testify framework
• Gorilla framework
• OWASP Top 10
• Redoc
• Runtime Middleware
• Go-swagger
• Accept-encoding
• Go http responsewriter
• protobuf
• protobuf-encoding
• grpc
• grpcurl
• grpc server-side streaming
• grpc client-side streaming
• grpc error handling