RESTful Go APIs

Go is a simple, compiled and highly performing programming language that seems to be made for the development of REST APIs. It is easy to learn, a simple and powerful concurrency model, has very good HTTP-, REST- and JSON-support, cross-platform capability, simple deployment and highly performing binaries. 

The book addresses server-side web developers. It introduces the essential aspects of the REST development in Go and uses a simple example that increases in complexity as the account progresses in the text. After studying the book the reader will be able to develop, deploy and operate production ready REST APIs in Go.

The choice of the name “APIs“ instead of “Microservices“ is intentional: firstly, in order to set apart from the current hype about microservices and secondly, in order to include the wide field of monolithic applications. 

The book consists of three parts. Part 1 and 2 are indispensable; part 3 has more of an open structure and may be used to a greater or lesser extent as the development progresses.