Raphaël Simon on goa, the Framework for Building Microservices (Go Time #7)

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, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Raphael Simon Introduction

• Twitter
• Github
• RightScale

Discussion

• Swagger
• #goa on Gophers Slack
• Abstractions conference - discount code ($50 off): gotime
• Blog post: “goa: Untangling Microservices”

Interesting Go Projects and News

• CLI - A package for building command line app with go
• Great post by Scott Mansfield from Netflix
• A Project Brian’s been following for a long time – Shield
• Heka - Data collection and processing made easy
• Uber’s fast, structured, leveled logging in Go

Free Software Friday

• Brian - Bitly’s NSQ, A realtime distributed messaging platform and GopherCon 2014 Spray Some NSQ On It by Matt Reiferson (Video)
• Carlisia iTerm2 v2.9beta or above
• Raphael - rethinkdb - The open-source database
  for the realtime web + All companies that let their employees develop open source projects.
• Erik - RocksDB - embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!