webservice-go

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A Webservice in Go

Why a WebService in Go into the playground ?

Well, I made some code in my work experiences where I used Go Webservices that I instrumented with OpenTelemetry. In this project, I make an attempt to restart the design from scratch of an OpenTelemetry monitored web-based service to propose a nice architecture to be used as a base for a later application development.

Design decisions

This projects makes an attempt to match the Standard Go Project Layout. It also replicates some code structures that I found rather elegant (for Go code ...) in other Open-Source Go projects:

• Functional Options frome Dave Cheney extensively used in open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go where I first discovered it.
• In Handling errors in Go web apps, the author proposes a clean approach to decouple the error handling from the logic of the http handlers without any additional library.

References

• Standard Go Project Layout
• Functional Options
• boldlygo.tech post on handling errors in Go web apps
• LogRocket article: Rate limiting your Go application