Building Microservices with Go

Setup

The installation of Kite is relatively simple; there are a few dependencies for service discovery, such as etcd, but all the code you need to create a Kite is found in the Go package. If we install this package using the go get command, we can go ahead and start writing our first Kite:

go get github.com/koding/kite  

The way Kite works is that there is a service that runs along with your application Kites called kontrol. This handles service discovery, and all of your application services register with this service so that clients can query the service catalog to obtain the service endpoint. The kontrol Kite comes bundled within the main package, and, for convenience, I have created a Docker Compose file, which starts this along with ...