Explore building scalable backend services in Go. Gain insights into server fundamentals, RESTful APIs, caching strategies, MongoDB, and creational design patterns to ensure high performance and reliability.

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Lesson 1

Testing

Scalable backend services refer to the ability of a system’s backend to cope with changing workloads. A developer must build applications that can handle increased user demands without sacrificing performance, reliability, and responsiveness.

You’ll start by learning the fundamentals of a server and how to test a backend service. You’ll also design RESTful APIs and build a self-sufficient network package to interact with APIs efficiently. Next, you’ll learn different caching strategies and the necessary interfaces to handle databases using MongoDB, an example of a NoSQL database. Finally, you will learn about different creational design patterns to ensure the system’s components are scalable.

Irrespective of whether you’re a seasoned developer or completely new to the backend world, you will confidently build high-performance systems that can handle increasing user demands, equipped with the skills to excel in modern backend development using Go after taking this course.

Building Scalable Backend Services in Go

To reduce the latency of subsequent requests by storing the frequently accessed data

To prevent too many requests from being processed in parallel

To serve as a primary data store for large amounts of data

To encrypt data that is sent between the server and the client

What is the purpose of using caching mechanisms in back-end services?

What is the purpose of using caching mechanisms in back-end services?

To prevent clients from making too many consecutive requests to the server

To ensure that requests to the server are accepted/processed at a controlled pace and do not exceed a certain threshold

To monitor the performance of the server and detect potential failures

To control the rate of outgoing traffic to the external dependencies

What is the purpose of using rate limiters in back-end services?

What is the purpose of using rate limiters in back-end services?

To prevent clients from using certain features without having the proper authentication and authorization

To prevent a failure in one component of the system from causing a cascade of failures in other components

What is the purpose of using circuit breakers in back-end services?

What is the purpose of using circuit breakers in back-end services?

A type of circuit breaker used to prevent cascading failures in distributed systems

A mechanism for implementing rate limiting in Go

A type of cache used to store frequently accessed data in memory

A thread synchronization primitive used to control access to a shared resource

Allowing unlimited downloads of a large file from a server

Limiting the number of failed login attempts per user

Allowing users to make unlimited API requests to a server

Limiting the number of users that can access a server

What is a good use case for rate limiting?

What is a good use case for rate limiting?

Test your knowledge of advanced networking concepts.

Before We Get Started

Server Fundamentals

Parking Lot Server

Networking and Interfaces

E-commerce Compare Products API

Dealing with Databases and Queues

Design Patterns

Conclusion

Quiz: Advanced Networking