Milestone 5: Web Services with Go

🌐 Milestone 5: Web Services with Go

Go is the language of the cloud. In this milestone, we learn how to build high-performance web servers and APIs using Go’s incredibly fast standard library.

📚 Slow-Paced Deep Dives (University Modules)

• Module 1: net/http (The Postal Service): GO-201. Building a web server with zero external tools.
• Module 2: JSON Handling (The Packing List): GO-202. Communicating with modern web and mobile apps.
• Module 3: Gin Framework (The Express Delivery): GO-203. Speeding up development with the most popular Go web tool.

🥅 Milestone Goals

1. Start a Web Server using only the standard library.
2. Route different URLs to specific functions.
3. Parse JSON from a user and send JSON back.
4. Implement Middleware for security and logging.