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Building Scalable Backend Services in Go

Learn to build scalable backend services in Go. Master server basics, RESTful APIs, caching, MongoDB, and design patterns to deliver high-performance, reliable solutions.

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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.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

A deep understanding of building and testing scalable backend systems

Familiarity with core concepts of backend servers, including concurrency-safe access and serialization and deserialization of JSON data

Hands-on experience building RESTful APIs, including communications with external APIs

The ability to design structures and interfaces to deal with databases in backend development

Understanding of different caching strategies and their benefits

Familiarity with creational design patterns, including builder pattern, factory pattern, object pool pattern, and singleton pattern

A deep understanding of building and testing scalable backend systems

Content

57 Lessons2 Projects5 Quizzes

Before We Get Started

2 Lessons

Get familiar with building scalable backend services using Go and practical system design.

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Server Fundamentals

18 Lessons

Unpack the core of establishing and managing servers, handling requests, and ensuring robustness.

Listen and Serve

Graceful Server

Graceful Server—Wait and Shutdown

Graceful Server—Prestart

Exercise: API Timer Middleware

Solution: API Timer Middleware

Testing Back-End Services

Logging in Back-End Services

Quiz: Server Basics

API Design and Documentation

Mux Ado About Routing

Quiz: APIs and Routing

Exercise: APIs and Routing

Solution: APIs and Routing

Data Serialization and Deserialization

Lock Your Objects!

Additional Reading—the CAP Theorem

Wrap Up

Parking Lot Server

Project

Networking and Interfaces

16 Lessons

Work your way through managing network operations for scalable backend services using Go.

Making an API Call

Exercise: Custom API Response

Solution: Custom API Response

Building a Network Package—Client Pool

Optimizing API Interactions—Caller

Optimizing API Interactions—Receiver

Common Network Utilities

Quiz: Networking Basics

Parallel API Calls

Caching Basics—Theory

The LRU Cache

Rate Limiting

Testing Our Rate Limiter

Circuit Breakers—Theory

Circuit Breaker—Implementation

Quiz: Advanced Networking

E-commerce Compare Products API

Project

Dealing with Databases and Queues

13 Lessons

Enhance your skills in managing databases and queues for scalable backend Go services.

Interfaces for Data Entities

External Dependenices

Interfaces for External Dependencies

Quiz: Interfaces, Databases, and Queues

Foundations of Databases

MongoDB: Complete Working Playground

Advanced Caching Concepts

Quiz: Databases and Caching

Build a CRUD Application Using Golang and React

Project

Design Patterns

7 Lessons

Solve problems in applying creational and structural design patterns for efficient code design.

Quiz: Design Patterns

Conclusion

1 Lessons

See how it works from basics to creating scalable back-end services in Go.

Wrap Up

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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Hriddhi Dey

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