We build REST API's that run inside docker containers, deployed and managed via GCP and Kubernetes.
Go is a magnificent language for this purpose. It allows quick and painless deployment (since we only ship a binary), and the development time is also shorter, since the standard library gives us almost everything we need by default.
This means very few third party dependencies, quick and painless development, and very good maintainability (which is KEY).
I've also helped skill-up some of my colleagues moving from PHP to Go, and it was an easy process.
I'm going to quote the Gopher bot from the Gophers Slack channel on this one, and I highly recommend you to check it out, since it's a great source of learning and community!
Here are some resources you should check out if you are learning / new to Go:
First you should take the language tour: tour.golang.org/
If you want to learn how to organize your Go project, make sure to read: medium.com/@benbjohnson/standard-p....
Once you are accustomed to the language and syntax, you can read this series of articles for a walkthrough the various standard library packages: medium.com/go-walkthrough.
We use it for micro-services.
We build REST API's that run inside docker containers, deployed and managed via GCP and Kubernetes.
Go is a magnificent language for this purpose. It allows quick and painless deployment (since we only ship a binary), and the development time is also shorter, since the standard library gives us almost everything we need by default.
This means very few third party dependencies, quick and painless development, and very good maintainability (which is KEY).
I've also helped skill-up some of my colleagues moving from PHP to Go, and it was an easy process.
Awesome, the switch from a PHP/Javascript background is what I'm looking at now. Any good tutorials you'd recommend?
I'm going to quote the Gopher bot from the Gophers Slack channel on this one, and I highly recommend you to check it out, since it's a great source of learning and community!
Here are some resources you should check out if you are learning / new to Go:
First you should take the language tour: tour.golang.org/
Then, you should visit:
There are some awesome websites as well:
There's also an exhaustive list of videos gophervids.appspot.com related to Go from various authors.
If you prefer books, you can try these:
If you want to learn how to organize your Go project, make sure to read: medium.com/@benbjohnson/standard-p....
Once you are accustomed to the language and syntax, you can read this series of articles for a walkthrough the various standard library packages: medium.com/go-walkthrough.
Finally, github.com/golang/go/wiki#learning... will give a list of even more resources to learn Go
Hey I think one more learning community you missed out, Here it is hackr.io
Thanks!
Good shout, I actually didn't know that one! Thanks for the recommendation.