Part 2: Microservices - Create the App with Go-kit

This is the second blog post of the series, where I dive into the process details and the framework I used to create the toy project. It is made up of several distinct microservices. There are a number of microservice frameworks in the wild but the most notable ones for GO are Go Micro, Go-Kit, Gizmo. Go-Kit is the one which has prompted my interest, I’m explaining below why. Asa starting point I’m creating a small application, formed by two microservices.
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Part 1: Microservices - Ingesting data

I’m starting a series of 5 blog posts where I document the path I followed to create a small project which is made up of several components (microservices) deployed over a managed kubernetes infrastructure. In this first blog post I create a simple serverless data ingest pipeline, the next 2 blog posts are in depth description of the microservices architecture and the last 2 blog posts are about deploying the application in a Kubernetes environment and the mechanism to manage and monitor the services.
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Part 3: Blog Site with Buffalo

This is the third and last post from a series of three where I present an option to build a blog site. In the first 2 posts I showed you how to create a simple static site with Hugo and how to build your own blog site using mainly standard library. In this post I’ll build the blog site using one of the best GO web frameworks out there, Buffalo.
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Part 2: Blog Site written in GO

This is the second post from a series of three where I present an option to build a blog site. This time I created a simple blog site in GO, mostly using standard library and a couple of external packages. Althouth it is simple it can serve specific needs. If you don’t need a fully featured site but fast and reliable this may work for you. It was designed with the minimal amount of features required for the blog site and can be developed further on.
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Part 1: Blog Site with Hugo

This is the first post from a series of three where I present an option to build a blog site. Hopefully, this series will give you some hints on what it takes to build a simple site/blog. Although my goal is to code the blog site in GO, I want to give a try to this wonderfull tool, Hugo. If you don’t have time to code and need a full featured static site this is one of the best solution out there in the market.
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