What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with REST API Development, discusses the fundamentals of REST architecture and verbs.

Chapter 2, Handling Routing for our REST Services, describes how to define basic routes and handler functions for a REST API.

Chapter 3, Working with Middleware and RPC, covers working with middleware handlers and basic RPC.

Chapter 4, Simplifying RESTful Services with Popular Go Frameworks, presents quick prototyping of a REST API with a few open source frameworks.

Chapter 5, Working with MongoDB and Go to Create a REST API, explains how to use MongoDB as a storage backend for a REST API.

Chapter 6, Working with Protocol Buffers and gRPC, shows how to use protocol buffers and gRPC over HTTP/JSON to obtain a performance boost.

Chapter 7, Working with PostgreSQL, JSON, and Go, explains how to use PostgreSQL as a storage backend and leverage JSON stores to create REST APIs.

Chapter 8, Building a REST API Client in Go, presents techniques for building client software and API testing tools.

Chapter 9, Asynchronous API Design, presents techniques for scaling APIs by leveraging asynchronous design patterns.

Chapter 10, GraphQL and Go, discusses a different API query language in contrast to REST.

Chapter 11, Scaling our REST API Using Microservices, covers building microservices using Go Micro.

Chapter 12, Containerizing REST Services for Deployment, shows how to prepare a containerized ecosystem for API deployment.

Chapter 13, Deploying REST Services on Amazon Web Services, shows how to deploy a containerized ecosystem to AWS Cloud using infrastructure as code.

Chapter 14, Handling Authentication for our REST Services, discusses securing an API with simple authentication and JSON Web Tokens (JWT).