December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 58m
English
Content preview from Building RESTful Web services with Go
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Why Go for REST API development?
REST services are trivial in the modern web. SOA (which we discuss in more detail later) created an activity space for REST services to take web development to the next level. Go is a programming language from the house of Google for solving the bigger problems they have. It has been eight-plus years since its first appearance. It matured along the way with a developer community jumping in and creating huge scale systems in it.
Go is the darling of the web. It solves bigger problems in an easy way.
One can choose Python or JavaScript (Node) for their REST API development. The main advantage of Go lies in its speed and compile-time error detection. Go is proved to be faster than dynamic programming languages ...