Go Kit, a package for building microservices

In the enterprise world, people know about Netflix's Eureka and Spring Boot from the Java community. In Go, a package that tries to reach that level of implementation is obviously Go kit. It is a toolkit for building microservices.

It has a Go style of adding services, which makes us feel good. It comes with a procedure for adding the microservices. In the upcoming sections, we will see how to create a microservice with the steps defined by Go Kit. It mainly consists of many layers. There are three layers where request and response flow in Go Kit:

  • Transport layer: This takes care of transferring data from one service to another
  • Endpoint layer: This takes care of building endpoints for the given ...

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