Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

The app.go file

The file app.go is responsible for receiving data and sending it to our data storage. When we read this file, it seems to do too much or is badly divided, but it is very important to understand the characteristics of the language with which we are working.

Go is an imperative programming language—just writing clear, simple, and objective code is the focus of the developers. Patterns like MVC projects and complex structures of settings are not always applied in Go, especially when you program in the purest way possible. This does not mean that such patterns cannot be applied, quite the contrary. However, patterns like MVC are used in the structures of the Go files, only when there is a real need.

Let's take a look at our file ...