Go Microservices Architecture Training
Design and build production-grade distributed microservices with Go in this comprehensive 4-day training. Learn service decomposition, inter-service communication, resilience patterns, observability, and deployment strategies for Go-based microservice architectures.
Training Details
Section titled “Training Details”| Duration | 4 days (32 hours) |
| Level | Advanced |
| Delivery | In-person, Live online, Hybrid |
| Certification | N/A |
Who Is This For?
Section titled “Who Is This For?”- Senior Go developers building distributed systems
- Software architects designing microservice platforms
- Backend engineers scaling monoliths to microservices
- DevOps engineers supporting Go microservice deployments
- Technical leads making architecture decisions
Learning Outcomes
Section titled “Learning Outcomes”After completing this training, you’ll be able to:
- Decompose domains into well-bounded microservices
- Implement synchronous (gRPC) and asynchronous (messaging) communication
- Apply resilience patterns (circuit breaker, retry, bulkhead)
- Instrument services with distributed tracing and metrics
- Deploy microservices with Kubernetes and service mesh
- Design event-driven architectures with Go
Detailed Agenda
Section titled “Detailed Agenda”Day 1: Microservice Design and Communication
Section titled “Day 1: Microservice Design and Communication”Module 1: Microservice Design Principles
- Domain-driven design and bounded contexts
- Service decomposition strategies
- API contracts and versioning
- Hands-on: Decompose a monolith into service boundaries
Module 2: Synchronous Communication
- gRPC service-to-service communication
- Protocol Buffers and code generation
- Service discovery and load balancing
- Hands-on: Build communicating gRPC services
Module 3: API Gateway Patterns
- Gateway routing and aggregation
- Rate limiting and authentication at the edge
- Request transformation and protocol translation
- Hands-on: Implement an API gateway with Go
Day 2: Asynchronous Communication and Data
Section titled “Day 2: Asynchronous Communication and Data”Module 4: Message-Driven Architecture
- Event-driven vs message-driven patterns
- Apache Kafka integration with Go
- NATS and NATS JetStream
- Hands-on: Build event-driven services with NATS
Module 5: Event Sourcing and CQRS
- Event sourcing fundamentals
- Command Query Responsibility Segregation
- Event store implementation in Go
- Hands-on: Implement event sourcing for an order service
Module 6: Data Management
- Database per service pattern
- Saga pattern for distributed transactions
- Data consistency strategies
- Hands-on: Implement a saga with compensating transactions
Day 3: Resilience and Observability
Section titled “Day 3: Resilience and Observability”Module 7: Resilience Patterns
- Circuit breaker pattern (gobreaker)
- Retry with exponential backoff
- Bulkhead and timeout patterns
- Hands-on: Add resilience to inter-service calls
Module 8: Distributed Tracing
- OpenTelemetry SDK for Go
- Trace propagation across services
- Span attributes and events
- Jaeger and Tempo backends
- Hands-on: Instrument services with distributed tracing
Module 9: Metrics and Monitoring
- Prometheus client for Go
- Custom metrics (counters, histograms, gauges)
- Grafana dashboards for microservices
- Alerting rules and SLOs
- Hands-on: Build a monitoring stack for the microservice platform
Day 4: Deployment, Service Mesh, and Operations
Section titled “Day 4: Deployment, Service Mesh, and Operations”Module 10: Kubernetes Deployment
- Kubernetes manifests for Go microservices
- ConfigMaps, Secrets, and environment configuration
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
- Hands-on: Deploy microservices to Kubernetes
Module 11: Service Mesh
- Istio and Linkerd fundamentals
- mTLS and service identity
- Traffic management and canary deployments
- Hands-on: Add Istio service mesh to the platform
Module 12: Production Operations
- Centralized logging with structured logs
- Incident response and runbooks
- Capacity planning and load testing
- Hands-on: Capstone — deploy and operate a complete microservice platform
Prerequisites
Section titled “Prerequisites”- Strong Go development experience
- Go Web Services & APIs or equivalent
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes basics
Delivery Formats
Section titled “Delivery Formats”| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| In-Person | On-site at your company’s location, hands-on with direct interaction |
| Live Online | Interactive virtual sessions with screen sharing and real-time labs |
| Hybrid | Combination of on-site and remote sessions, flexible scheduling |
All formats include hands-on labs, course materials, reference architectures, starter code, and post-training support.