Go: Building Web Applications

Summary

In this chapter, we built an API that consumes and abstracts the Google Places API to provide a fun and interesting way of letting users plan their days and evenings.

We started by writing some simple and short user stories that described at a really high level what we wanted to achieve, without trying to design the implementation up front. In order to parallelize the project, we agreed the meeting point of the project as the API design, and we built towards it (as would our partners).

We embedded data directly in code, avoiding the need to investigate, design, and implement a data store in the early stages of a project. By caring instead about how that data is accessed (via the API endpoint), we allowed our future selves to completely change ...