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Building Microservices with Go
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Building Microservices with Go

by Nic Jackson
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Language independence

Thanks to two nice design choices with the use of Protocol Buffers as a messaging format and the ability of the sidecar, it is possible to interface with microservices from just about any language that can support an HTTP transport.

Let's take a quick look at how we could send and receive messages using Ruby. This example is probably a little more complicated than just making a simple REST call, and most people who use Micro would probably opt to use JSON-RPC from the sidecar. However, it is interesting to see how we can interface with microservices using the RPC interface. While there may seem to be far more boilerplate than you would find if you were making a call using the Go client for Micro, this could be wrapped ...

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