Building RESTful Web services with Go

Getting Started with REST API Development

A web service is a communication mechanism defined between different computer systems. Without web services, custom peer-to-peer communication becomes cumbersome and platform specific. It is like a hundred different kinds of things that the web needs to understand and interpret. If computer systems align with the protocols that the web can understand easily, it is a great help. A web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), https://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/.

Now, in simple words, a web service is a road between two endpoints where messages are transferred smoothly. Here, this transfer is usually one ...