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Ardan Labs Ultimate Go Web Service Training

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Ardan Labs Ultimate Go Service Training

I attended the Ardan Labs Ultimate Go Service Remote Training on September courtesy of Bill Kennedy. This is what I learned. Here is the source code that was used in the training. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to stretch his/her Go knowledge beyond the fundamentals and is looking for knowledge that will be of use in production environments.

What I learned

• Mental Models (How to efficiently structure your Go web services).
• How to propagate request-scoped values in your web services. (Validating integrity of your requests,etc)
• How to use databases with the Golang sql driver (sqlx extension also used).
• How to model your data for efficient use and closely match your business needs. (Think data marshalling and unmarshalling).
• How to collect metrics from your web services using Go. (Observability purposes).
• Learnt how kubernetes comes in handy when deploying. (Kubernetes was used to deploy the production application images).
• Learnt how to test web services efficiently. (Both unit and integration tests)
• Learnt how to architect web services for the cloud.(Tied in with mental models)

Special Thanks

• Bill Kennedy
• Ardan Labs