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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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57 Lessons

3 Projects

17h

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

Learning Roadmap

57 Lessons2 Projects5 Quizzes

Before We Get Started

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

What Is This Course About?

Is This Course Right for You?

Server Fundamentals

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.

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.

Build a CRUD Application Using Golang and React

Project

Premium

Design Patterns

7 Lessons

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

Conclusion

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.

Developed by MAANG Engineers

ABOUT THIS COURSE

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hriddhi Dey

I'm a seasoned tech enthusiast with 8+ years of building and scaling products from scratch for top e-commerce and fintech companies worldwide. I like writing about and teaching full-stack development and career growth.

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