Ljubljana, Slovenia

Improving our database handling

As we start to develop real services, we found out that our database handling needs some improvements. We are going to do a series of improvements of the current state by adding some new features, and restructuring some existing ones.

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Issuing requests against our microservice

In order to test our microservice, we require a database, running migrations, and our service itself. We’re going to build a docker-compose.yml file which takes care of all of this.

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Go: implementing a microservice

We should move towards writing actual code for our service. We are writing a simple statistics collection service for tracking page views. We are going to create a database schema for collecting page views and improve things along the way.

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Docker: Building images with security in mind

When it comes to running our microservices in production, we need to build docker images. Security is unfortunately an afterthought, so let’s try to figure out what we can do to increase security so it’s better than most of the stuff out there.

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Go: Dependency injection with Wire

Our microservices ultimately need at least a database connection in order to query and store data in a MySQL database. We need to pass this object, possibly from the main() function, to our service implementation.

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