Mastering Go Web Services

• Familiarize yourself with RESTful practices and apply them in Go
• Acquaint yourself with the best practices for API design such as URL routing and HTTP response methods
• Utilize useful middleware and frameworks to augment applications otherwise relying on pure Go
• Understand the basic and complex authentication models for APIs
• Deploy your code to staging and development environments
• Look at ways to make your Go web services as speedy and thrifty as possible
• Secure your web services
• Ingest your own API and make it appealing to other developers

This book will take you through the most important aspects of designing, building, and deploying a web service utilizing idiomatic REST practices with a focus on speed, security, and flexibility. You will begin by building your first API in Go using the HTTP package. You will look at designing and building your application including popular design structures like Model-View-Controller. You will also understand methods for deploying code to staging and development. Finally, you will see how the security features in Go can be used for protection against SQL injection, and sensitive data compromise.

By the end of this book, you will have achieved a high level of proficiency in building and deploying web services and web APIs with Go.