Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go, Second Edition

Very disappointing experience of buying this book. Wish I can get my money back. Feels like author googled few libraries and put together some very basic code. A better explanation and code can be found easily on google. Really very disappointing for me.

It seems like this author was trying in every possible way to extend the length of the book. To be fair that seems to be the case with most programming books today. The book is supposed to be about designing services yet you will often spend time setting up database data. It would had been better to just start with a base code that already has the database setup and focus on writing the restful services which is suppose to be the book's focus. It seems the author ran out of words and was trying to find a way to make the book longer.

One of the most enjoyable books I have read for a long time.  I coded 43 projects while working through this book, which indicates that they are quite short, concise and aimed at driving home one or two concepts at a time. I found the writing comfortable and it covers most if not all of the architecture patterns you’re likely to encounter in a working capacity. 
The book is from a couple of years ago so some packages in the book have been updated and the code needs some easily googleable tweaks to work with the current package versions as of Q3 2021. This is a book that will give you a good repository of starter projects and boilerplates for your own projects. If you know the Go language and fancy learning some web services development beyond the standard library net/http packages or Gorilla then this will give you a great intro to common API and microservices approaches. An easy 4.5 / 5

only basics and outdated