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Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1188-5_7

7. Building HTTP Servers

Shiju Varghese

(1)Chettiyadan House, Cheranalloor, India

Go is a general-purpose programming language that can be used for building variety of applications. When it comes to web programming, Go is a great technology stack for building back-end APIs. Go might not be an ideal choice for building conventional web applications where the web application performs UI rendering using server-side templates. When you build RESTful APIs for powering back-end systems for a variety of systems including web front-end, mobile applications, and many modern application scenarios, Go is the finest stack. Some of the existing technology stacks are good for building ...

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