Introduction

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Overview of REST

The subject of this chapter is the development and use of simple RESTful servers and clients using the Go programming language. REST is an acronym for REpresentational State Transfer and is primarily an architecture for designing web services. Although web services exchange information in HTML, RESTful services usually use JSON format, which is well supported by Go. REST is not tied to any operating system or system architecture and is not a protocol; however, to implement a RESTful service, we need to use a protocol such as HTTP. When developing RESTful servers, we need to create the appropriate Go structures and perform the necessary marshaling and unmarshaling operations for the exchange of JSON data.

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Course Introduction

Introduction to Go

Basic Go Data Types

Composite Data Types

Reflection and Interfaces

Go Packages and Functions

Telling a UNIX System What to Do

Go Concurrency

Building Web Services

Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket

Working with REST APIs

Code Testing and Profiling

Working with gRPC

Go Generics

Conclusion

Appendix A—Go Garbage Collector

Introduction

Overview of REST