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Welcome to

Reliable Webservers with Go

Module 1

Introduction

7 Lessons

01Course Introduction
Sneak Peek
02What You'll Learn in This Course
Sneak Peek
03Golang Useful Resources and Tools
Sneak Peek
04The authors
Sneak Peek
05The history of Go
Sneak Peek
06Installing Go
Sneak Peek
07Golang: An Overview of Fundamental Concepts
Sneak Peek

Module 2

A key-value server

5 Lessons

01A Quick Primer on Key-Value Servers and Hash Tables
Sneak Peek
02How to Create a Basic hello world Webserver with Go
Sneak Peek
03Build a Basic hello world JSON API Server with Go + Chi
Sneak Peek
04How to Create an In-Memory Hash Table API with Go + Chi
Sneak Peek
05Conclusion
Sneak Peek

Module 3

Testing a key-value server

7 Lessons

01Testing a key-value server
Sneak Peek
02What is End-to-End Testing, Integration Testing, and Unit Testing?
Sneak Peek
03Writing Unit Tests for JSON Functions in Go
Sneak Peek
04Parallel Testing in Golang: How to Use t.Parallel()
Sneak Peek
05A Brief Overview of Golang Benchmarks
Sneak Peek
06Integration testing
Sneak Peek
07Further testing types
Sneak Peek

Module 4

Distributed Key Value Server

7 Lessons

01Distributed key-value server
Sneak Peek
02What is Distributed Consensus and How Does it Work?
Sneak Peek
03An Introduction to Using Raft for Distributed Consensus
Sneak Peek
04Create a Distributed Webserver using Golang and Raft
Sneak Peek
05Connecting Golang Servers With a Handler and Middleware
Sneak Peek
06Building a Store Package to Sync Data in Go with Raft's FSM
Sneak Peek
07Testing Distributed Golang Webservers in Docker Containers
Sneak Peek

Module 5

Monitoring

6 Lessons

01Monitoring
Sneak Peek
02White Box Monitoring vs Black Box Monitoring
Sneak Peek
03A Introduction to Golang Logging
Sneak Peek
04Defining and Implementing Distributed System Tracing with Go
Sneak Peek
05Alerting
Sneak Peek
06Further reading
Sneak Peek

Module 6

A canary deployment server

9 Lessons

01Understanding the Basics of Canary Deployments
Sneak Peek
02Wait, what's a load balancer?
Sneak Peek
03What aren't we doing?
Sneak Peek
04So what will we be doing?
Sneak Peek
05How to Create a Basic Random-per-request Load Balancer
Sneak Peek
06What is Weighted Round Robin Load Balancing?
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07Streamlining Configuration Updates for Canary Deployments
Sneak Peek
08Other considerations
Sneak Peek
09Three Open-Source Load Balancers Written in Go
Sneak Peek

Module 7

Chat server

9 Lessons

01Chat server
Sneak Peek
02Chatting about chat servers
Sneak Peek
03What features don't we want (yet)?
Sneak Peek
04What features do we want?
Sneak Peek
05Using a SQLite database in Golang
Sneak Peek
06How to Create an API for a Golang Chat Server
Sneak Peek
07Creating a Frontend Interface in Go for a Chat Server
Sneak Peek
08How to Deploy a Golang Webserver With Docker
Sneak Peek
09Future improvements
Sneak Peek

Module 8

Future thinking

3 Lessons

01Future thinking
Sneak Peek
02Project ideas
Sneak Peek
03Areas of more research
Sneak Peek

Course Introduction