Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

Handlers

Creating routes to APIs in Go is very simple, but using native handlers' options can generate certain complexities, especially regarding the validations. The native muxer does not have a lot of flexibility, so the best option is to seek more productive tool handlers.

Go has a multitude of options for handlers, and perhaps the most explored library model because of the characteristic of writing the low-level language.

When it comes to performance for routers in Go, at the time of release of this book, there is nothing more performative than fasthttp: (https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp).This is a library written using Go that provides low-level language. Fasthttp metrics are outstanding.

Here are the numbers running tests locally ...