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Microservices with Go

You're reading from Microservices with Go The expert's guide to building secure, scalable, and reliable microservices with Go

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836207337

Length 428 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Go Micro

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Alexander Shuiskov

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Microservices

3. Foundation

4. Scaffolding a Go Microservice

5. Service Discovery

6. Serialization

7. Synchronous Communication

8. Asynchronous Communication

9. Storing Service Data

10. Setting Up Service Deployments

11. Unit and Integration Testing

12. Security and Compliance

13. Maintenance

14. Reliability Overview

15. Collecting Service Telemetry Data

16. Setting Up Service Alerting

17. Performance Monitoring

18. Advanced Topics

19. Implementing Distributed System Scenarios

20. Advanced Topics

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Introduction to synchronous communication

In this section, we are going to cover the basics of synchronous communication and introduce you to some additional benefits of Protobuf that we are going to use for our microservices.

Synchronous communication explains how network applications, such as microservices, interact and is where services exchange data using a request-response model. This process is illustrated in the following diagram:

Figure 5.1 – Synchronous communication

Figure 5.1 – Synchronous communication

Requests and responses can either take the form of individual messages or be represented as sequences of messages, called streams. Consider a video streaming service: a client would be sending a request to get a long video and get the response from a server as a sequence of messages, each containing a small chunk of video data.

There are many protocols for synchronous communication between services. HTTP is one of the most popular among them.

Each communication protocol defines...

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Authors (1)

Alexander Shuiskov

Alexander Shuiskov

Alexander Shuiskov is an independent researcher and software expert specializing in distributed systems, microservices, and observability. He has worked at major tech companies, including Uber, Booking(dot)com and eBay, where he helped solve large-scale infrastructure challenges, as well as establish reliability and monitoring of thousands of microservices.

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