URL Shortener Golang web service with Mongodb
Web technologies are in the heart of the software industry in this day and age. And one of the most popular approaches for web services to communicate with the outside world is the HTTP RESTful API design, which is integral in making modern software scalable and open. At the same time, NOSQL databases are gaining more and more market share as the new data storage engines of choice for a lot of software professionals. Since Go is a very modern language, it's a very smooth experience to combine the two technologies via Go. This article serves as a practical tutorial into how to build a Golang web service combined with the popular Mongodb NOSQL document store database. The web service does URL shortening, meaning you could use it to beautify long ugly URL addresses, by providing a shorter URL that you would like to use instead (think http://tinyurl.com).
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