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Cloud Native Go: Building Web Applications and Microservices for the Cloud with Go and React
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Cloud Native Go: Building Web Applications and Microservices for the Cloud with Go and React

by Kevin Hoffman, Dan Nemeth
December 2016
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 49m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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7. Creating a Data Service

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Martin Fowler

When people talk about database access, certain programming languages seem to automatically be part of the vernacular. Everyone just assumes that Java and C# can talk to virtually any database out there, and if they can’t, you probably didn’t need that database anyway.

We have actually had people ask us, “Can Go talk to a database?” without a hint of irony. Somewhere out on the Internet there lies a conspiracy to convince people that Go is useful for little more than command-line utilities and specialized tasks, and that you should leave the “real work” to other languages.

We couldn’t disagree ...

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