Microservices are an architectural approach that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services. The document discusses various techniques for building microservices using Go including:
- Using gRPC and protocol buffers for service definition and communication between microservices.
- Implementing structured logging, metrics collection, and configuration via environment variables to provide observability.
- Deploying microservices using containers with Docker for isolation and portability across environments.
- Leveraging tools like Kubernetes for orchestration and continuous integration/deployment via Ansible and Docker.
8. Protobuf definition
package helloworld;
// The greeting service definition.
service Greeter {
// Sends a greeting
rpc SayHello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {}
}
// The request message containing the user's name.
message HelloRequest {
string name = 1;
}
// The response message containing the greetings
message HelloReply {
string message = 1;
}
9. Go Implementation
// server is used to implement helloworld.GreeterServer.
type server struct{}
// SayHello implements helloworld.GreeterServer
func (s *server) SayHello(ctx context.Context, in *pb.HelloRequest) (*pb.HelloReply, error) {
return &pb.HelloReply{Message: "Hello " + in.Name}, nil
}