Raphaël Simon on goa, the Framework for Building Microservices

A deep dive into goa, a design-based microservice framework with a DSL that generates idiomatic Go code for your APIs, swagger documentation, and tests helpers.

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Featuring:

• Raphaël Simon – GitHub (https://github.com/raphael), X (https://x.com/rgsimon) • Erik St. Martin – GitHub (https://github.com/erikstmartin), X (https://x.com/erikstmartin) • Carlisia Thompson – GitHub (https://github.com/carlisia), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlisia), X (https://x.com/carlisia) • Brian Ketelsen – GitHub (https://github.com/bketelsen), X (https://x.com/bketelsen)

Show Notes: Raphael Simon Introduction

• Twitter (https://twitter.com/rgsimon)

• Github (https://github.com/raphael)

• RightScale (http://www.rightscale.com/)

Discussion

• Swagger (http://swagger.io/)

• #goa on Gophers Slack (https://gophers.slack.com/messages/goa/)

• Abstractions conference (http://abstractions.io/) - discount code ($50 off): gotime

• Blog post: “goa: Untangling Microservices” (https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/goaUntanglingMicroservices/)

Interesting Go Projects and News

• CLI - A package for building command line app with go (https://github.com/mkideal/cli)

• Great post by Scott Mansfield from Netflix (http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/05/application-data-caching-using-ssds.html?m=1)

• A Project Brian’s been following for a long time – Shield (https://github.com/starkandwayne/shield)

• Heka - Data collection and processing made easy (https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka)

• Uber’s fast, structured, leveled logging in Go (https://github.com/uber-go/zap)

Free Software Friday

• Brian - Bitly’s NSQ, A realtime distributed messaging platform (http://nsq.io/) and GopherCon 2014 Spray Some NSQ On It by Matt Reiferson (Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_SUzXIUuI)

• Carlisia iTerm2 v2.9beta or above (https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2)

• Raphael - rethinkdb - The open-source database

for the realtime web (https://www.rethinkdb.com/) + All companies that let their employees develop open source projects.

• Erik - RocksDB - embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage (http://rocksdb.org/)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome! (https://github.com/thechangelog/show-notes/blob/master/gotime/go-time-7.md)