Explore how Zillow utilizes Go to build maintainable services in this GopherCon 2021 talk. Discover techniques for creating transport-agnostic, highly testable, and easily maintainable applications that connect millions of consumers to real estate partners. Learn about Zillow's approach to composing applications, focusing on adding business value while making instrumentation, configuration, and resiliency transparent. Gain insights into server implementations, including timeout handling, graceful shutdown, distributed tracing, health checks, and Swagger integration. Delve into worker patterns, Kafka client usage, circuit breakers, and concurrency management. Examine http client implementation, logging practices, and configuration management using AppConfig. Understand how Zillow leverages WIRE for dependency injection and composition to streamline development processes.
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Goals
Server: Timeout
Server: Graceful shutdown
Server: Distributed Tracing
Server: Health Check and Probes
Server: Swagger
Server ...
Server: Factory
Worker : Kafka Client
Worker : Timeout
Worker : Circuit Breaker
Worker : Distributed Tracing
Worker : Concurrency
http client
kafka write
Logger
Configuration : AppConfig
Composition
Example
WIRE
Taught by
Gopher Academy
