Cloud Native Go: Building Reliable Services in Unreliable Environments

by Matthew A. Titmus

Learn how to use Go's strengths to develop services that are scalable and resilient even in an unpredictable environment. With this book's expanded second edition, Go developers will explore the composition and construction of cloud native applications, from lower-level Go features and mid-level patterns to high-level architectural considerations.

Each chapter in this new edition builds on the lessons of the previous chapter, taking intermediate to advanced developers through Go to construct a simple but fully featured distributed key-value store. You'll learn about Go generics, dependability and reliability, memory leaks, and message-oriented middleware. New chapters on security and distributed state delve into critical aspects of developing secure distributed cloud native applications.

With this book you

Learn the features that make Go an ideal language for building cloud native softwareUnderstand how Go solves the challenges of designing scalable distributed servicesDesign and implement a reliable cloud native service by leveraging Go's lower-level features such as channels and goroutinesApply patterns, abstractions, and tooling to effectively build and manage complex distributed systemsOvercome stumbling blocks when using Go to build and manage a cloud native service

875 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 14, 2024

About the author

Matthew Titmus is an academic refugee and veteran of the software development industry who can currently be found serving as an SRE technical lead at Flatiron Health in New York. He's an organizer for the DevOpsDays NYC Conference, the founder of NYC CoffeeOps, and the author of Cloud Native Go (coming this May from O'Reilly Media).

Since teaching himself to build virtual worlds in LPC, he's earned a surprisingly-relevant degree in molecular biology, written tools to analyze terabyte-sized datasets at a high energy physics laboratory, developed an early web development framework from scratch, wielded distributed computing techniques to analyze cancer genomes, and pioneered machine learning techniques for linked data. He was an early adopter and advocate of both cloud-native technologies in general and the Go language in particular.

Matthew has above average handwriting. His hobbies include spontaneous human combustion, collecting dirt, and cold logic. His turnoffs include time, object permanence, barium, and four out of five dentists. He lives on Long Island with the world's most patient woman, to whom he is lucky to be married, and the world's most adorable boy, by whom he is lucky to be called dad.