API foundations in Go

Introduction

1. About me
2. Why Go?
3. Who is this book for?
4. How should I study it?

Setting up your environment

1. Networking
2. Setting up a runner for your Go programs
3. Setting up Redis
4. Other services

Data structures

1. Declaring structs
2. Casting structs
3. Declaring interfaces
4. Abusing interfaces
5. Embedding and composition
6. Limiting goroutine parallelization
7. Slices
8. The slice operator
9. Allocation by append
10. Copying slices
11. Using slices in channels

Organizing your code

1. Suggested package structure
2. What to put there?
3. Format your source code

Encoding and decoding JSON

1. Encoding structs into JSON
2. Decoding JSON contents into structs
3. Nested structures
4. Anonymous structs

Serving HTTP requests

1. Setting up a simple web server
2. Routing logic
3. Routing and middleware with go-chi
4. Advanced middleware - CORS
5. JWT authentication middleware

Parallel fetching of data

1. A simple API service
2. Making it parallel
3. Some tips

Using external services (Redis)

1. Client library
2. Talking to a Redis instance
3. Worst case scenario
4. Let’s scale it
5. Connection pool

Using external services (MySQL)

1. Quick start
2. Goodbye simplicity
3. Simplicity redux
4. if the easy way is to manually bind columns to struct fields I’m wondering what’s the hard way
5. Connection pool
6. SLEEP(duration)
7. Scaling MySQL beyond MySQL

Test driven API development

1. Creating a simple API
2. Testing an API
3. More detailed testing
4. A note on testing
5. Implementing the complete API

Your first API

1. Putting the API together
2. Benchmarking it
3. Profiling it

Running your API in production

1. Configuration
2. Building an application
3. Embedding binary assets into an application
4. Serving embedded files via HTTP
5. Deploying an application
6. Creating a Docker image
7. Exposing run-time information

Resources