You're reading from Modern REST API Development in Go Design performant, secure, and observable web APIs using Go's powerful standard library

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836205371

Length 294 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Gokit

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Jesús Espino

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to APIs

2. Exploring REST APIs FREE CHAPTER

3. Building a REST Client

4. Designing Your REST API

5. Authentication and Authorization

6. Data Persistency

7. API Security

8. API Performance

9. Deploying Your API

10. Testing

11. Documenting with OpenAPI

12. Metrics, Logs, and Traces

13. Using GORM

14. Using the Echo Framework

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16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Deploying Your API

Go is an ideal language for deployment. Its ability to build a single statically linked binary makes deploying and running in any environment easy. The cross-compilation support is another key feature that makes Go an excellent choice for deployment anywhere. You can build your Go binaries on any platform and deploy them on the destination platform. This suits you incredibly well when running them in other architectures, such as ARM for Raspberry Pi or MIPS for routers. Nowadays, there are a lot of options for deployment, from real hardware to modern orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, and many other things in between, such as Docker, virtual machines (VMs), or serverless functions. Go can be very convenient for any of those deployments, but how should you deploy each of them?

We are going to explore the following in this chapter: