Martin Helmich - Cloud native programming with Golang develop microservice-based high performance web apps for the cloud with Go

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Mina Andrawos is an experienced engineer who has developed deep experience in Go from using it personally and professionally. He regularly authors articles and tutorials about the language, and also shares Go's open source projects. He has written numerous Go applications with varying degrees of complexity.
Other than Go, he has skills in Java, C#, Python, and C++. He has worked with various databases and software architectures. He is also skilled with the agile methodology for software development. Besides software development, he has working experience of scrum mastering, sales engineering, and software product management.

Martin Helmich studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrck and lives in Rahden, Germany. He works as a software architect, specializing in building distributed applications using web technologies and Microservice Architectures. Besides programming in Go, PHP, Python, and Node.js, he also builds infrastructures using configuration management tools such as SaltStack and container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

He is an Open Source enthusiast and likes to make fun of people who are not using Linux. In his free time, you'll probably find him coding on one of his open source pet projects, listening to music, or reading science-fiction literature.

Jelmer Snoeck is a software engineer with a focus on performance, reliability, and scaling. He's very passionate about open source and maintains several open source projects. Jelmer comes from a Ruby background and has been working with the Go language since 2014. He's taken a special interest in containers and Kubernetes, and is currently working on several projects to help with the deployment flow for these tools. Jelmer understands how to operate and scale distributed systems and is excited to share his experience with the world.

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Cloud computing and microservices are two very important concepts in modern software architecture. They represent key skills that ambitious software engineers need to acquire in order to design and build software applications capable of performing and scaling. Go is a modern cross-platform programming language that is very powerful yet simple; it is an excellent choice for microservices and cloud applications. Go is gaining increasing popularity and becoming a very attractive skill.

The book will take you on a journey into the world of microservices and cloud computing with the help of Go. It will start by covering the software architectural patterns of cloud applications as well as practical concepts regarding how to scale, distribute, and deploy those applications. From there, the book will dive deep into the techniques and design approaches that are needed for writing production-level microservices and their deployment into typical cloud environments.

After completing this book, you will have learned how to write effective production-grade microservices that are deployable to the cloud, practically understand the world of Amazon Web Services, and know how to build non-trivial Go applications.