Matthew Campbell is the back-end server lead for EikonMessenger, the largest financial instant messenger at Thomson Reuters. With over 300k users, it presents a large amount of scaling in a grueling environment of stock traders. He recently presented at GopherCon India, and blogs at kanwisher.com. He has upcoming talks at Gotham Go and Velocity. Matthew was a founder of Errplane and Langfight. He is working on a book for Microservices in GO.

Microservices in Go teaches you how to handle advanced server side development in Go; it uses microservices to accomplish this, but is relevant to all server-side developers. The author gives you tips on how to deploy Go apps to popular cloud platforms like Amazon, Google, and Digital ocean. The book has a lot of meaty chapters, including:

Queuing architectures such as Kafka, and how to practically use them

Influxdb, and how to monitor production systems with metrics

How to use Docker to make deployments simpler

Using ETCD/Consul to do service discovery and automated failover of mysql/redis

Building mobile clients on IOS and Android