Golang && REST Design Resources

A Few Golang/REST Resources I’ve Crowdsourced/Otherwise Discovered

Wow! I have been quite busy. I’m taking the CISSP exam on September 29th and beginning the OSCP course on October 6th. School is back in session. At first I thought this would inevitably mean fewer posts; however, I’m thinking I’ll have more quick bite-sized updates to provide as I’ll be working through a lot of fun, interesting material in my final year as an undergrad.

One project I’m working on involves Twitter APIs, a custom REST API, data analysis, possibly some message queue technology, and of course…shiny visualizations. I’m using this project as an opportunity to finally learn Golang and to study principles of REST API design.

I’ve been polling Twitter/Slack channels/friends/Google to collect resources about those two topics and I’ve developed a short list of those. Thanks to everyone who provided info!

REST APIs

• The Stripe API is considered to be an excellent example of a “really good API.”
• Swagger has a best practices guide. Everybody loves Swagger for API docs. I love using API docs built with Swagger! This will be my first time using it to create my own docs. I also hear that the OpenAPI framework allows you to easily build SDKs in various languages for your APIs.
• Here are some practical tips from the folks at MS Azure.
• REST Cookbook
• Fielding Dissertation on REST
• How to GET a Cup of Coffee

Golang

• A Tour of Go
• Online Course - Go: The Complete Developer’s Guide
• The Go Playground. Run your Go code on demand!
• And if anyone cares, I’m using GoLand by JetBrains as an IDE. Student access FTW!

I hope someone finds these resources useful! Ping me if you have more resources! I know I’ll be referring back to this page in the future.