caid11 / creating-a-dynamic-reverse-proxy-with-go

Contains the slides and code for my 2018 OpenWest talk "Creating a Dynamic Reverse Proxy with Go".

Creating a Dynamic Reverse Proxy with Go

This repository contains the slides and code for my 2018 talk at OpenWest titled "Creating a Dynamic Reverse Proxy with Go".

Live Demo Notes

Here are the steps shown during the live demo:

• Launch Godoc: godoc --http=:6060
• Open local Godocs in browser.
• Show off how Godoc works, navigate to the httputil package
• Show documentation for reverse proxy
• Copy docs into a Go file.
• Run them.
• Show source for NewSingleHostReverseProxy
• Make our own rp struct that goes to "https://now.httpbin.org/"
• Modify the struct so it randomly shows either the time or the original backend
• Launch a goroutine in the director