Network Programming with Go

10 Caddy: A Contemporary Web Server

Chapter 9 focused on the web service building blocks available to you in Go’s standard library. You learned how to create a simple web server with relatively little code by using handlers, middleware, and multiplexers. Although you can build a capable web server with those tools alone, writing your own server from scratch may not always be the quickest approach. Adding support for logging, metrics, authentication, access control, and encryption, to name a few features, can be daunting and hard to get right. Instead, you may find it more convenient to use an existing, comprehensive web server to host ...