Go
Understand how Go supports microservices with its concurrency features, powerful web libraries, and suitability for Docker environments. Learn to implement REST services and use Docker multi-stage builds to optimize deployment in microservice architectures.
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Microservices and the increasing popularity for Go #
Go is a programming language that is increasingly being used for microservices due to its great speed and support for concurrency. Concurrency enhances the efficiency of using multiple machines and cores.
Go also provides a powerful standard library for the creation of web services.
For further details on how Go compares with the other 4 languages commonly used for implementing Microservices, visit this site.
Similar to Java, Go is based on the programming language C. However, in many areas Go is fundamentally different from C.
Go code #
The Go program below responds to HTTP ...