Building Scalable Backend Services in Go

INTERACTIVE COURSE

Building Scalable Backend Services in Go

Beginner

57 Lessons

17h

Certificate of Completion

AI Explanations

AI Explanations

Building Scalable Backend Services in Go

2 Projects

36 Playgrounds

5 Quizzes

30 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

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

Course Overview

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 in...Show More

Course Content

1

Before We Get Started

What Is This Course About?

Is This Course Right for You?

2

Server Fundamentals

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

3

Networking and Interfaces

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

4

Dealing with Databases and Queues

Interfaces for Data Entities External Dependenices Interfaces for External Dependencies Quiz: Interfaces, Databases, and Queues Foundations of Databases NoSQL DB Package MongoDB: Connect MongoDB: Insert MongoDB: Upsert MongoDB: Read MongoDB: Complete Working Playground Advanced Caching Concepts Quiz: Databases and Caching

5

Design Patterns

Brief Note Builder Pattern Factory Pattern Object Pool Pattern Prototype Pattern Singleton Pattern Quiz: Design Patterns

6

Conclusion

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