Building Microservices with Go

Building a simple web server with net/http

The net/http package provides all the features we need to write HTTP clients and servers. It gives us the capability to send requests to other servers communicating using the HTTP protocol as well as the ability to run a HTTP server that can route requests to separate Go funcs, serve static files, and much more.

To begin we should ask the question, what technical book would be complete without a simple hello world example? I say none and this is exactly where we will begin.

In this example, we are going to create an HTTP server with a single endpoint that returns static text represented by the JSON standard, this will introduce the basic functions of the HTTP server and handlers. We will then modify ...